Is everything late this year?

I would second that , if I understood it !

 

Yep it seems slower here than last year

 

It's the cool wind holding things back, i can go up the road about five miles and things would be out in flower but here they would be just starting to bud up

 

Thanks for the heads up! I will sit with my feet up until 17th then lol!
Have a fab holiday!

 

All taking off here now, flowers are opening, leaves coming out on the Hawthorns, grass is growing and the birds are singing.

 

And the May is out, here, so we can cast clouts!

 

Here, it started yesterday... at last!

 

I thought it was May the month not May blossom.

 

No, its Crataegus monogyna, not the month

Casted one of my clouts today and nearly knocked a sheep out

 

My boss told me this morning that in Scotland it is the month, and in England the blossom.

 

Well if I carry on waiting for my neighbours May flowers to appear I won't get anything done! Their tree didn't bloom last year and probably won't this year either.

 

But all you have to do when the may is out is cast some clouts - meaning, take your clothes off! You can still garden in your woollies.

 

Be casting all me clouts on the first Saturday of May

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Gardening_Day

 

Couple of pics from yesterday (non nude )

 

I think we're a bit ahead of ourselves here in Kent, but I'll wait until @wiseowl comments as he knows gardens far better than me x x