This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

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This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

What is this mild weather you speak of :-) All leaves here are long
down; we've already had severe gales, all-day ferry cancellations,
frost, ice on the pond, and snow.

I've just collected 14 full black bin bags of leaves from a neighbour
who had swept them up from his large lawn and bagged them to dispose of.
Great stuff for the compostheap, sandwiched with seaweed (to be
collected this afternoon).

Janet.

My Wallflowers are flowering! What will happen when the cold comes? Will
they flower again in Spring?

Trevor

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This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

What is this mild weather you speak of :-) All leaves here are long
down; we've already had severe gales, all-day ferry cancellations,
frost, ice on the pond, and snow.

I've just collected 14 full black bin bags of leaves from a neighbour
who had swept them up from his large lawn and bagged them to dispose of.
Great stuff for the compostheap, sandwiched with seaweed (to be
collected this afternoon).

Janet.


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My Wallflowers are flowering! What will happen when the cold comes? Will
they flower again in Spring?

Trevor

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This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

What is this mild weather you speak of :-) All leaves here are long
down; we've already had severe gales, all-day ferry cancellations,
frost, ice on the pond, and snow.

I've just collected 14 full black bin bags of leaves from a neighbour
who had swept them up from his large lawn and bagged them to dispose of.
Great stuff for the compostheap, sandwiched with seaweed (to be
collected this afternoon).

Janet.


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"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

I would not say that Nivember has been particularly mild.. Here in the SE
we've had daytime temperatures ranging around the 43° F to 50° F, but for
much of the month around the middle of that range.We've had 2 nights this
month where we had a ground frost but nightime lows have ramged from 30° F
to 45° F. So I'd say temperatures have been pretty average for November.
October on the other hand was unusually mild.

On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:29:04 +0000, Martin Brown
wrote:

This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

We have two large hanging baskets of bacopa snowflake in full flower
and a solanum rantonnetii with quite a few blooms.
--
rbel

On 02/12/2013 16:45, Frank Booth wrote:
"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

I would not say that Nivember has been particularly mild.. Here in the SE
we've had daytime temperatures ranging around the 43° F to 50° F, but for
much of the month around the middle of that range.We've had 2 nights this
month where we had a ground frost but nightime lows have ramged from 30° F
to 45° F. So I'd say temperatures have been pretty average for November.
October on the other hand was unusually mild.


I would have said that November has been mild, but (unlike 2011, when I
didn't turn the central heating on until December) not excessively so.
(Only two nights with a ground frost would be mild for November in most
of the country.) We certainly didn't get the "record-breaking" November
that was predicted.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/436...d-for-November

--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

On 02/12/2013 16:45, Frank Booth wrote:
"Martin Brown" wrote in message
...
This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is
going to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out
and geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage).
But the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back
into leaf! This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast
materialises on Friday as the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.

I would not say that Nivember has been particularly mild.. Here in the SE
we've had daytime temperatures ranging around the 43° F to 50° F, but for
much of the month around the middle of that range.We've had 2 nights this
month where we had a ground frost but nightime lows have ramged from 30° F
to 45° F. So I'd say temperatures have been pretty average for November.
October on the other hand was unusually mild.


I would have said that November has been mild, but (unlike 2011, when I
didn't turn the central heating on until December) not excessively so.
(Only two nights with a ground frost would be mild for November in most
of the country.) We certainly didn't get the "record-breaking" November
that was predicted.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/436...d-for-November

--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

"Martin Brown" wrote

This recent calm spell of very mild November weather looks like it is going
to cause some trouble. I noticed yesterday we still have roses out and
geraniums in good flower again (although showing some frost damage). But
the most amazing thing is that the blackcurrants are coming back into leaf!
This spells doom for them if the icy winter blast materialises on Friday as
the weathermen predict.

There are still a few oak trees with most of their leaves (yellow) on.
Again a decent winter storm will see them off too.


I've given in and tidied up our gardens in the last two days, pruned all the
roses (including cutting off flower buds) and cut down other things that
should be dead by now but were still in full leaf (eg, Glads). Noticed that
the Cyclamen are taking over our front garden, seedlings everywhere this
year, never a problem.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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My blackcurrants came into leaf at a silly time last winter when we had some persistently mild weather. That growth got burnt off by subsequent frosts, but it didn't seem to do them any harm when they came back into growth rather later than usual after the cold spring.