Our Daffodils are out. B-)

Noticed the Rowan buds are just starting to swell but no decidious
trees have the emerald green sprakle, still bare branches.

Fair few Curlews about, not seen or heard many Plovers yet. Reports
of the Black Grouse in full leck higher up.

Spring is arriving.

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Dave.

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Our Daffodils are out. B-)

Noticed the Rowan buds are just starting to swell but no decidious
trees have the emerald green sprakle, still bare branches.

Fair few Curlews about, not seen or heard many Plovers yet. Reports
of the Black Grouse in full leck higher up.

Spring is arriving.

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Cheers
Dave.
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That's interesting Dave because we have just spent the weekend in Kent on a
reunion and we remarked when we got back to the Isle of Wight, that whereas
their Daffs are starting to go over, as are some of ours, the trees in Kent
are far more advanced than ours in greening up.

Mike



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On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:29:05 +0100, Mike wrote:

That's interesting Dave because we have just spent the weekend in Kent
on a reunion and we remarked when we got back to the Isle of Wight, that
whereas their Daffs are starting to go over, as are some of ours, the
trees in Kent are far more advanced than ours in greening up.

Possibly different triggers between plants. I think some, like daffs,
work on temperature. They certainly they just stop if we get a cold
period as they are putting up leaves and flower spike. This year our
daffs first poked above ground level in January...

Trees off day length but that doesn't really work with your
observation, maybe trees won't start until the day is long enough but
rate of progression is temperature dependant?

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Cheers
Dave.

On 10/04/2014 00:53, Dave Liquorice wrote:
Our Daffodils are out. B-)

Noticed the Rowan buds are just starting to swell but no decidious
trees have the emerald green sprakle, still bare branches.

The buds on the trees here in North Yorks are swelling. Forsythia, plum
& pear blossom is out and the hedgerows are greening up quickly. Another
couple of days or so and they will be too dense to see through.

Fair few Curlews about, not seen or heard many Plovers yet. Reports
of the Black Grouse in full leck higher up.

Spring is arriving.

The odd lapwing around here. Not heard a curlew yet this year.

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On 10/04/2014 00:53, Dave Liquorice wrote:
Our Daffodils are out. B-)

Noticed the Rowan buds are just starting to swell but no decidious
trees have the emerald green sprakle, still bare branches.

The buds on the trees here in North Yorks are swelling. Forsythia, plum
& pear blossom is out and the hedgerows are greening up quickly. Another
couple of days or so and they will be too dense to see through.

Fair few Curlews about, not seen or heard many Plovers yet. Reports
of the Black Grouse in full leck higher up.

Spring is arriving.

The odd lapwing around here. Not heard a curlew yet this year.

We have flocks of curlews feeding on the sheep field. Much frantic
activity among the pheasants.

Janet

On 10/04/2014 10:05, Janet wrote:
We have flocks of curlews feeding on the sheep field. Much frantic
activity among the pheasants.

Revolting

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Even temperature dependance masks different triggers - one plant may be dependant on the temperature rising to a certain level, another may be dependent on the plant having had a particular period of low temperature.

So in a warm spring you see both plants which are unnaturally early because the temperature is above normal, and plants which are late, because they haven't yet had enough "winter" to be sure that spring has arrived.

On 10/04/2014 11:01, News wrote:
On 10/04/2014 10:05, Janet wrote:
We have flocks of curlews feeding on the sheep field. Much frantic
activity among the pheasants.

Revolting




She said "pheasants", not peasants ;~).

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gardening on heavy clay

Saw one up at Ribblehead the other day, where there was also both frogspawn and toad spawn.

Leeds is now in full flowering cherry mode.