Heyjude
I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.
View all posts by Heyjude
Great title 😀
And still flowering…
Everything is topsey-turvy at present…..
I’m wondering what spring is going to look like…
Bleak, I shouldn’t wonder….
Roses?
We-ell yes!
I have one small rosebud 🙂
Bless! As I no longer have a garden, I need to get out more!
So pretty, but mid-winter……..surely not! 🙂
I keep dead-heading mine, and they carry on flowering. I have even seen a tiny rosebud today!
Let’s hope Jack Frost keeps away this winter. 🙂
It will probably snow in April!
More daffodils out on Beetley Meadows too.
Regards as always, Pete. x
I haven’t seen daffodils here yet, but did down in Surrey last week.
I’ve still got geraniums! And primroses have been in the garden since November. Global warming?
But my poor Christmas Rose (hellebore) doesn’t have a single flower 😦 It is usually showing buds now. You have to wonder how this will effect those plants/bulbs that need the cold in order to flower.
I love geraniums. If your warmer than usual weather is being caused by El Nino, which is what we are hearing, it’s nothing to do with global warming. It’s a weather pattern influenced by the Pacific Ocean and has been monitored and researched since the mid 1800s. The first white settlers in Australia even commented on it in the 1780s. Its opposite is La Nina. Enjoy El Nino while you can!
Yes, we have been informed it is partially due to El Nino as it affects the path of the Gulf Stream which warms our little country, I’m not convinced that is the only reason though as we have never experienced it so warm in previous El Nino events. According to the WMO “Even before the onset of El Nino, global average surface temperatures had reached new records. El Nino is turning up the heat even further,”
I wonder if global warming has influenced El Nino weather patterns as we get them more often and more severely now.
You do have to wonder. Apparently at the North Pole it is above freezing when it should be -25 at this time. I suppose next year we’ll have a BIG freeze!
I thought that. It won’t last and next time it will go to the other extreme.
I hope you’re wrong about April snow. I’m enjoying all the wrong season things I come across and the longer it stays mild the better, we’ll run out of chance for winter!
I remember it snowing on May 1st in 1979 – and I was in the south-east at the time!
Really? Snow and ice in our flower pot. 🙂
You back from the sunny climes then Sue?
We are indeed Jude and adjusting to the reality. 🙂
Crazy weather right round the globe. I love geraniums too they make me think of sunny Mediterranean climate, not mid-winter England
So true 😀
😦
Please don’t tell me this geranium is from your garden, and still flowering? Although I wouldn’t be surprised…but at least it’s colder at last. Maybe some frost, just a little bit, on the horizon? I’ve enjoyed the comments here about El Nino and global warming. I thought El Nino, but interesting what you shared from the WMO. Unsettling to say the least…and I worry for the wildlife if we get a cold snap later on 😦
The geranium is in a stone trough around the corner from my house, but yes, I do have one flowering that has been outside all the time (just brought it indoors last night) though I brought others in weeks ago. Didn’t need to obviously!
Reminds of California, I used to leave them out all winter and they died back, but bloomed bigger and better in the summer. Not normal here though…weird!