........are a plant I love, because of the promise of spring they carry. The meteorological spring is only 2.5 months away. They are poking through all over the garden (a big plus about living in the SW, is that they flower early). See if my flowering record of 29th December can be beaten (I very much doubt it; it's been mild, but not record-breakingly so!).

The great thing is that I feel we've escaped 2 weeks of possible cold already and there is, fortunately, little cold on the charts this side of Christmas.

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 09:25:22 UTC, Dawlish wrote:
.......are a plant I love, because of the promise of spring they carry. The meteorological spring is only 2.5 months away. They are poking through all over the garden (a big plus about living in the SW, is that they flower early). See if my flowering record of 29th December can be beaten (I very much doubt it; it's been mild, but not record-breakingly so!).



The great thing is that I feel we've escaped 2 weeks of possible cold already and there is, fortunately, little cold on the charts this side of Christmas.

Well, Dawlish, I can beat that!. There's a group of roadside daffs just down the road in N. Bristol that flowered regularly by Dec. 19th- until 2010.
That winter threw them off their stride until this year, when it looks like they'll just make it to flowering before Xmas.

Lets leave the one-upmanship to the children who write letters to the Times.

Anyone heard a cuckoo on Jan 1st?

On 14/12/2013 09:45, haaark wrote:
On Saturday, 14 December 2013 09:25:22 UTC, Dawlish wrote:
.......are a plant I love, because of the promise of spring they carry. The meteorological spring is only 2.5 months away. They are poking through all over the garden (a big plus about living in the SW, is that they flower early). See if my flowering record of 29th December can be beaten (I very much doubt it; it's been mild, but not record-breakingly so!).



The great thing is that I feel we've escaped 2 weeks of possible cold already and there is, fortunately, little cold on the charts this side of Christmas.

Well, Dawlish, I can beat that!. There's a group of roadside daffs just down the road in N. Bristol that flowered regularly by Dec. 19th- until 2010.
That winter threw them off their stride until this year, when it looks like they'll just make it to flowering before Xmas.


That's done it! Dullish will blacken your name yttiw to doomsday and
beyond. DULLISH HAS TO WIN!

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 09:25:22 UTC, Dawlish wrote:
.......are a plant I love, because of the promise of spring they carry. The meteorological spring is only 2.5 months away. They are poking through all over the garden (a big plus about living in the SW, is that they flower early). See if my flowering record of 29th December can be beaten (I very much doubt it; it's been mild, but not record-breakingly so!).



The great thing is that I feel we've escaped 2 weeks of possible cold already and there is, fortunately, little cold on the charts this side of Christmas.



I can have daffodils flowering all the year around in my home.

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 10:09:18 UTC, yttiw wrote:
Lets leave the one-upmanship to the children who write letters to the Times.



Anyone heard a cuckoo on Jan 1st?

nothing wrong with a bit of phenology on this site yttiw. I bet there's someone in Rotherham who's had them flowering for weeks!

On Saturday, December 14, 2013 11:59:18 AM UTC, haaark wrote:
On Saturday, 14 December 2013 10:09:18 UTC, yttiw wrote:

Lets leave the one-upmanship to the children who write letters to the Times.







Anyone heard a cuckoo on Jan 1st?



nothing wrong with a bit of phenology on this site yttiw. I bet there's someone in Rotherham who's had them flowering for weeks!

They are being harvested in Jersey already, I believe - but then again, they are before Christmas just about every year.

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 09:25:22 UTC, Dawlish wrote:
.......are a plant I love, because of the promise of spring they carry. The meteorological spring is only 2.5 months away. They are poking through all over the garden (a big plus about living in the SW, is that they flower early). See if my flowering record of 29th December can be beaten (I very much doubt it; it's been mild, but not record-breakingly so!).



The great thing is that I feel we've escaped 2 weeks of possible cold already and there is, fortunately, little cold on the charts this side of Christmas.

For a moment I thought the post was titled Daffy Dildo and somehow I knew it was you.

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 09:25:22 UTC, Dawlish wrote:
.......are a plant I love, because of the promise of spring they carry. The meteorological spring is only 2.5 months away. They are poking through all over the garden (a big plus about living in the SW, is that they flower early). See if my flowering record of 29th December can be beaten (I very much doubt it; it's been mild, but not record-breakingly so!).



The great thing is that I feel we've escaped 2 weeks of possible cold already and there is, fortunately, little cold on the charts this side of Christmas.

In message , Joe Egginton
writes

That's done it! Dullish will blacken your name yttiw to doomsday and
beyond. DULLISH HAS TO WIN!

Have you ever had an original thought in your life ? Or have you spent
it hanging on to the tails of the big boys ?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Jim Kewley