On Jan 9, 3:28*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Jan 9, 1:24*pm, Graham Easterling wrote:





On Jan 9, 12:47*pm, Dawlish wrote:

On Jan 9, 11:26*am, Hugh Newbury wrote:

... or they may be narcissi. It must be this mild spell we have just
now. How will they do between now and genuine Spring, I wonder.

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

Last year, the first Dff came out on Dec 27th. I have a few almost
ready.

A wonderful day today in South Devon. Two on the trot and it's about
time! 8C, no wind and sunshine. In the garden this mornin; lots of
people out and about and doing the same. Missus and youngest, back
from their run, commented on the fact that so many people said "hello"
to them and that everyone was smiling. This is what a mild interlude
does for you in winter. It puts a smile of relief on everyone's face.
Long may it continue! Won't last, of course - it is, after all,
January - but spring is not that far away now!!

Picking at full tilt on Scilly nowhttp://www.scillyflowers.co.uk/flowers-by-post.asp?gclid=CPetgeOZraYC...
after a lull before Christmas at just the wrong time.

Narcissi rather than true daffs. However, as a daffodil is in fact a
narcissi, which varieties officially constitute daffodils I'm really
not sure. Everyone seems to have there own ideahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(plant)
doesn't really help!

What I would regard as true daffs in bud on some south facing
locations around Penzance now, helped by an average maximum
temperature of 9.1C over the 1st 8 days of January. 5 or 6 years ago
the fields were all yellow in time for the new year.

Graham
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yes, if it looks like a daffodil, it's a daffodil!

Hundreds, perhaps a thousand or more people out on the prom, beach and
front in Teignmouth. Quite incredible; it was like high summer, except
that everyone had a coat on! Scooters are the thing - even older
teenagers were using them. The one boy on a unicycle was quite a sight
though. Very clever. Generally, people really don't want snow and cold
in winter. That's for a few hardened souls, a select number of whom
seem to alight on the Internet! What people really want is sunshine.
dry days and a bit of mild weather and they'll flock out to be able to
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Down here in N. Bristol we have a group of roadside daffs that used
to flower every year about Dec.19th. Then we had the 2007 climate
shift and they now flower end of Jan. I am growing some daff seeds
from them in the (probably vain) hope that they set true to type. Wait
5 years & I'll let you know!