How Far Is Your Garden Behind This Year?.

Music. You asked how far my garden is behind. Well, it's the same as last year. 10' behind the house.

 

White Cherry opened today -
17 18Apr2008
11 13Apr2009
18 20Apr2010
4 06Apr2011
0 01Apr2012
25 27Apr2013

Daffodils (one particular clump)
9 25Mar2009
9 25Mar2010
6 22Mar2011
0 15Mar2012
25 10Apr2013

Forsythia
14 02Apr2007
14 02Apr2010
0 19Mar2011
7 25Mar2012
28 16Apr2013

Broom
23 26Apr2009
26 29Apr2010
12 15Apr2011
0 02Apr2012
? ??Apr2013
Spirea arguta
21 18Apr2008
15 13Apr2009
17 15Apr2010
11 09Apr2011
0 28Mar2012
28 26Apr2013

 

3/4 Weeks behind , to think my baskets normally go out about 10 May I cant see that happening this year.

Laburnum still not in bud yet
Apple trees maybe another week to flower, but I dont mind being last after being caught out with the frost last year
Cherry trees at least another week
The gorse where I keep the bees was nearly 3 weeks late opening as well.

Watching Beechgrove they said they where 5 weeks behind.

I bet we are all the same greenhouse fit to bursting and its just too cold to plant bedding etc even the tough stuff.
Spruce

 

I just feel sorry for those trying to get ready for Chelsea - must be a nightmare.

 

Normally they put plants in cold storage to hold them back its the opposite this year for most plants

 

I went to the RHS Cardiff flower show two years ago and most of the tree peonys had gone over , mine are still in the mid-bud stage.
Avon bulbs sent me a news letter saying how tough it has been for them trying to get plants flowering for the Cardiff show , I know work colleagues who went they said it wasn't as colorful as last year !!

 

I don't want to go to Chelsea.

 

I would say four to five weeks here. I can gauge it here by the Cherry trees on the TT. course, they have usually finished blooming a week and a half before it starts, which is the last Saturday in May. So far there is no sign of them blooming. The bikers really don't need these trees shedding flowers around them when they're travelling at speeds of up to 150mph.

Meanwhile my daffs are in full bloom still and they would be almost finished by now.

 

Z

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Zigs, you really don't have to go, nobody is going to force you!

 

You've not overlooked the fact that its the Centenary have you?

 

Thanks to my wife, we have got tickets for the 24th