First signs of spring 2007

The darling buds of January...

...as seen from a customer's garden this morning!

Did we have Winter already?

Shops are selling daffs already too...

yep, the bush outside work has started popping a few tiny pink flowers

Winter was on holiday this year.

A well deserved holiday after last year.

I'm not the least bit upset.

I love the weather today - it really does feel like spring!

PLEASE some one tell me i didn't waste my time and money on winter tires for nothing...
there has to be some snow ...

It was a very long and hard and cold winter last year - I'm definitely enjoying the Tshirt weather we're having...

The Daffs in our garden are through! no tulips yet though!!

I'm just afraid we're having all the nice weather now and summer will be cold and wet

The cherry blossoms are in full bloom up here already, looks nice... no snow & ice this year
and people complain about global warming

all the predictions are that 2007 will be the hottest year on record. The German press is saying that if winter does not come then we'll be overrun with insects by spring and summer. I'm not sure whether upsetting ecosystems like this with freaky unpredictable weather is necessarily a good thing.

In London the average night time temp has been 12.7C apparently, which is higher than the average last July...

I read on the news that in southern France it was around 20 degrees yesterday.

Bush outside is pretty much in full bloom today.

My boss is predicting 30cm of snow for tomorrow, and the best skiing for years in February.

He's a fuckwit though. I'm rather enjoying the nice weather.

@Lassie, I assume your boss is gonna bring the 30cm of snow from his deep freezer?

Aye my two trees look like this already! Bulbs are starting.

But I am worried that we may get a cold snap in Feb and knacker everything.

We're not out of the woods yet.

thats the global temp though - doesn't necessarily mean it will be the hottest in G

All those years of my childhood sitting outside spraying those aerosol cans weren't for nothing. The last couple days have been wonderful

This does worry me although I am enjoying it right now. Less snow in Pac NW means more wildfires in summer and last year was an extremly horrible year.

Quite. I've decided to trade my piddling 1.8 litre turbo in for a 5 litre V10 diesel off-roader. I'm looking forward to 30C on Christmas day next year. Apologies in advance to anybody who skis, but it's a shit sport anyway.

I think we ve finally found something to agree on

This will make up fo the fact that my wood pellets have shot up horribly in price this year. At this rate the delivery I've just had will last all year long, super!

Yes I've seen a few trees beginning to sprout around the place.

I really hope it snows. I get that regulars and old folk may get sick of cold weather quickly but the grey dark temperate weather is the standard winter climate in the U.K so it would've been nice to have something a little different this year

tell me about it!
I am already seeing a few fruitflies patrolling my garbage...and it's only January I usually don't have to fight these bastards until july-aug!

If this keeps up we're in for water shortages here in Munich! It's too dry.

Yeah! Wicked! Hosepipe bans...just like home

Surely you dont believe the German press on this subject (or on any other...) ?

Yeah, they are unreal with the sensationalist reports! They even had one during the week about the dangers of malaria arriving here as the mosquitoes are now surviving the winter!

I reckon you could have left out the word German and your statement would have been just as correct.

Seen at Platz der Freiheit in Neuhausen yesterday.

So, I was outside yesterday checking for damage from the storm (lots of branches, etc to pick up) and I noticed all the flowering bushes in the yard were already budding...poor things. What happens to their buds when the temps drop off again?

There was a wasp in our kitchen yesterday.

I hope its not that wasp that was following me all last summer!

There were two wasps in our house here in Holzkirchen Saturday. Being the eco friendly person that II am...I squashed the buggers. Mind you I was thinking of putting their squished bits on the compost.

btw following the advice of Gardeners World, I planted thousands of bulbs last autumn which are starting to appear - I bought loads of packs of them in Aldi - will they get hammered by thew snow?

Any signs of springs, like flowers and wasps, are going to be gone by the end of the week. First snow, and then super cold temperatures on Friday..

I don't think so. They are very fleshy and hardy and just poke right back through the snow when it thaws. Storing their nourishment as they do the slightest bit of warmth should get them going again, no waiting for the surrounding earth to thaw, either. I have tons of little shoots in my front garden patch where I was intending to grow herbs; I don't really want to dig them up .

I like the weather this year. It's just like home (Victoria, BC.)

I thought we explained that problem, it was 2 wasps taking turns!