langcafe2.myfreeforum.org

fab · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:20 am Post subject:

The weather have been very windy today.

Uriel · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:38 am Post subject:

I went and bought plants for my garden over the weekend. Each spring, it is customary for me to go and choose a few good specimens to die horribly in the heat come summer. This year's victims will include sweet william, strawberries, pansies, dusty miller, onion chives, tomatoes, roses, and some midsummer's night sage. Well, the roses and sage will probably do just fine.
_________________
An apple a day....

Deborah · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:39 am Post subject:

Uriel · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:59 am Post subject:

And quite cheery and beautiful as well!

I have managed to keep some poinsettias alive, including one from LAST Christmas, and I found that they actually liked being outside on the porch, and weren't even that thirsty. I'm just afraid to put them out until I know all threat of a frost is gone, because it's still getting down into the thirties at night, I think. I saw my breath Monday morning.
_________________
An apple a day....

Deborah · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:17 am Post subject:

My purple Cape daisies, which looked pretty sickly by the time winter started, have recovered and are blooming profusely.

Elaine · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

It's been unseasonably warm the past couple of days, but it's a lovely kind of warm.

And my gardenias look like they're about to bloom! I'm so excited about that b/c they're a very temperamental plant. The last one I tried to raise only gave me one friggin' bloom before drying up due to the dry, smoky, Santa Ana wind conditions. This time around, I've been misting them regularly and feeding them azalea/rhododendron food.

Uriel · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:39 am Post subject:

Cape daisies come back? Good to know....

I have a lot of plants that die back down to the ground in the winter and then pop up again in the spring -- like my smaller Salvias and my mealy-cup sage. My Peruvian nightshade even takes until late summer to put out any leaves -- now there's a lazy plant! I have also had annuals who gamely put in a second year, like a few of my dianthus, and trees like my mimosas, which spring back into exuberant growth no matter how many times you try to chop them down, or, as my pit bull did, munch off half their bark. (Seriously. I had to wrap chicken wire around it!)
_________________
An apple a day....

Uriel · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:01 am Post subject:

So I scurry back home at 7pm to plant some roses in the last light of day, and I have the bag of steer manure by me so that I can amend the soil as I go, and I look down and there's the dog, blissfully eating it.....

Wind advisory in effect for tomorrow -- winds are supposed to hit 50-60 mph. God bless March! But it's supposed to be about 78 degrees, so other than that, it should be a nice day!
_________________
An apple a day....

fab · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject:

in Paris temperatures around 15°C. If there wasn't the tipical winter grey skies we could guess that spring is coming soon.

The lucky people that live in the sunnier french south-west saw their temperatures reach 22°C.

Uriel · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:

This just in: my stingy rosemary has produced more than one flower now -- we're up to a whole branch! Out of a very large bush, but okay....

Today was absolutely gorgeous, and I was out working itn he yard in t-shirt and shorts. I even have a sunburn!

Wish me luck on my bareroot roses -- I forgot to soak them first.

_________________
An apple a day....

André in Zuid-Afrika · Site Admin Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 1908

Elaine · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

The weather in these parts has been absolutely lovely, although temperatures are expected to rise by the end of the week. I thought I'd just share this boring bit of information.

Deborah · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

I hope that reflects what's going to happen in northern California.

Tiffany · Expert Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 141

As a matter of fact it does! My husband thinks they must be smoking something since the weather here is so predictable and it is supposed to be suddenly so warm. I for one am looking forward to it.

Elaine · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject:

André in Zuid-Afrika · Site Admin Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 1908

I think winter has started here now. After a few cool days, it was fairly warm for the past week. But today suddenly turned cold, and we had a lot of rain this afternoon and tonight, so it should at least be cold for the next few days. We might have another warm spell after that, but from then it will be winter.
_________________
Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.

Elaine · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject:

The weather here has been absolutely beautiful. I love Spring!

André in Zuid-Afrika · Site Admin Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 1908

patriccke · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

André, I read in another thread that you wanted her to add South-Africa in her list of future travels. But is wheather the only argument you've found?

Here 22°C/12°C. Rather polar, isn't it?