"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
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| Jack ) wrote:
| First Cuckoo
| ....well not quite, but I do claim the first grass cut of the year.
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| My lawn had been looking more and more untidy so with splendidly low
| humidity this first day of January, I was able to give it a much needed
| trim. Job completed by 1020 GMT.
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| Anyone beat that?
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| Jack South Cambridgeshire 140 metres ASL
| (and now awaiting complaints about the noise from hung-over neighbours)
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| It's a nice day here too -what a warm pre dawn it was.
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| If only I'd had some more of this during the hols, I'd have finished
| the garden for the winter. I still have a bag of daffs mouldering.
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| I saw a cherry type tree in flower a few weeks back but can't remember
| where. Nutsford I think. I meant to check it out but am in Stafford
| next. I saw a magpie carrying a twig to a tree in the nice weather
| about then too; so probably a yoof jumpin' the gun a bit.
|

Did it have small white flowers with red centres? There is a winter
flowering type which does and our neighbour's tree has been out for a few
weeks now. This is normal behaviour for this particular variety.

Many spring flowers rely on daylength as well as temperature cues and so
there is a limit to how early they can come out. Bulbs normally need both a
cold spell and a warm spell to make them come up - the reports of early
bulbs in recent years have been due to a tendency for a cold snap in
mid-autumn followed by a mild winter, making the bulbs (which have no way of
knowing otherwise) think that "Winter" has come and gone and it is now
"Spring". An exceptional lack of cold weather might actually delay the
Spring bulbs because they might still be waiting for Winter to pass. I used
to work in a flower nursery, and we used to put the daffodils and tulips out
in the Autumn with only shallow coverings of earth and sand so they would
experience the necessary cold, then when market conditions dictated we would
bring them into a nice warm greenhouse to "force" them.

I have seen a number of unusual flowers for the time of year round this part
of the world but most of them are last summer or autumn's offerings which
have not experienced enough severe weather to kill them off.
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