Bloomin' Winter

I want snow. I want a hard frost. I want to moan about it being too cold. We haven’t had so much as a proper frost or a single snowflake.

Now you may wonder why I am desperate for bad weather. Well to start with, it is not ‘bad’, far from it. I stand by what my Great Granddad used to say – you need a good hard winter to kill the bugs and shock the land into Spring.

As it is we have already had to mow our lawn this month, my fuschias are still flowering and the camellia is in full flower. Even some of my tenderer herbs are carrying on oblivious to the fact they should be on their winter holidays.

Goodness knows what the garden pests will be like this summer if we don’t get a decent cold snap soon not to mention all the viruses no doubt we’ll be catching!

Also, a frosty, bright morning even with snow throws out a wonderful light which we need rather than this dank, greyness which I am sure is the reason just about everyone I speak to feels down at some level or another.

I’ve never been one to shout ‘panic, it’s global warming’ but now I am beginning to wonder just how badly we have fecked up the planet for the next generation.

How’s everyone else’s garden doing?

winter, garden, gardening

Comments

[Kate]

Your great Grandad sounds more like my great Grandma every time you mention him.

How's my garden? Well, the climbing rose in the front garden was still flowering just before Christmas - that's not usual. The nasturtiums in the back garden went on until the end of November. Usually, they have died off by the middle of October. At the moment things seem to be sleeping, and preparing for spring, but they took their time getting to that point, because in another 2 or 3 weeks the crocuses will be appearing along with the first signs of spring.

Oh, one more thing. The sparrows who nest in one of the fir trees in our garden had two lots of babies last spring, that's not usual either.

I have to agree, we have fecked things up. Lets hope we still have time to put it all to rights.

[Miss M]

But the snow queen did work her magic for you this evening!
Hope the snow helps.
Now go get snuggled up and drink hot chocolate like I would do if we had snow :-)

[Marjory]

We have below zero temperatures now, which should be ambling towards you any time soon. Apart from having been underdressed, I am in accord with you on this one - cold in January = healthy, blossom in January = a crying shame and redolent of bugs.

[Thursday]

My Californian poppies carried on flowering til late November as did my fuschias and a climbing rose flowered just before Christmas. There are already fat red fingers poking up from the ground which are the peonies and I've seen daffodils blooming in a couple of gardens.