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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 26 9:00 am Post subject:
a Hare day!!â¤ï¸ we had lovely weather between showers, managed a bit of gardening

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 26 5:48 pm Post subject:

That's good Gz. It was beautiful here today; sunny with a breeze. Found a cherry tree I didn't know existed and that is just breaking into leaf. Various ornamental ones along roads and in car parks are in flower.

We had a lot of male brimstone butterflies around today. Not sure if there were any females; I saw some white ones, but not sure if they were female brimstones or whites. Also quite a lot of dark coloured butterflies that I think must have been peacocks, but the were moving fast so unable to see.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 26 5:08 pm Post subject:
Have been on a trip to the New Forest today to deliver charcoal. We found we could just get 50 bags in the car. There were some trees coming into leaf, flowers everywhere, ponies much in evidence with their shaggy winter coats. Only down side was that the gate was locked when we got there, so had to walk to get them to unlock it before we could unload.

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 26 7:20 pm Post subject:
Nice sunny day - first bumble bee and first lady bird. The sparrows have been all a twitter for a bit now.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 26 7:47 pm Post subject:
Lovely dawn sky and frost on cars at 7am Beautiful sunny day..until on the edge of Glasgow (by bus)...but it cleared up nicely and got quite warm...until just under ten miles from Prestwick....fog!! Inversion fog by the look of it.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 26 9:27 pm Post subject:

It was lovely here yesterday. We had to go down to the New Forest to deliver charcoal and it was beautiful there.

Today we went for a short walk and lots of flowers out now. The hawthorn is opening leaves up the hill towards our house, the blackthorn is now in flower outside, and our lawn is covered in primroses. There is one false oxlip (a cross between cowslip and primrose), but no sign of the cowslips yet, although I did see some while we were out. Violets in odd places in the garden too. Think most are early dog violet ([/i]V. richenbachiania) but some might be sweet violets as I did plant some a long time ago. The fritillaria are also coming into flower both pink and white.
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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 26 8:54 am Post subject:
Leaning back into Winter here.â„ï¸ðŸŒ¬ï¸â˜”

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 26 2:30 pm Post subject:
We are threatened with colder weather too, but don't think the snow is supposed to get this far south. Still, being where we are, we can't be sure.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 26 8:27 pm Post subject:
We have hail, snow further north. Wales has snow, Some bits of France have aLOT of snow

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 26 6:29 pm Post subject:
We didn't have snow, but very strong winds on Wednesday, so we couldn't work. Has thrown out charcoal production out, but luckily it was a nice day yesterday so got one kiln fired. It did get rather chilly later on though.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 26 4:50 pm Post subject:
We have had very mixed weather today; cold wind but sometimes sunny, sometimes 'precipitation' which I think covers most of the showers. Sleet, snow, soft hail and rain. Everything is starting to green up in spite of the weather. Trees are starting to break leaf, flowers everywhere, so really lovely.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 26 8:19 pm Post subject:

Managed to get out into the main part of the wood today for a short while. The bluebells are lovely; a real royal blue. Primroses, both early and common dog violets, some toothwort going over a bit, and wood anemones. The early purple orchids haven't got further than a few leaves yet, so assume they either bloom the same time each year or are affected by day length rather than weather. The wood next to ours has the beech fairly well fully in leaf, and a few of ours are starting, but mainly still thinking about it. Hazel, hawthorn and a few others coming into leaf, so the lower levels are looking quite green although the tree tops generally still bare.

In the garden the primroses are still looking lovely, just a few cowslips in a sheltered corner and some false oxlips, which are a cross between the two. Think the cowslips in the main part of the lawn will be a bit later.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9659
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 26 8:34 am Post subject:
Everything is "springing" but looking rather battered, frosted and wind scorched

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 26 5:14 pm Post subject:

Not looking bad here at the moment. Went out into the main part of the woods on Friday, and the bluebells are really beautiful. Went out today and the different greens on the trees along the road a amazing. Wish I was a better painter to capture them. The beech leaves in the wood are starting to come out, hazel fairly well in leaf now and a oaks being a bit variable from bare to full leaf. Ash thinking about it.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 26 4:00 pm Post subject:

Delivered some charcoal at a reasonable distance today, and was surprised to see that north of us the horse chestnut and hawthorn are in flower, and wisteria in full flower on houses. Think it must be because those particular places stay warm with the road or south facing. Our wisteria is getting longer buds, but the horse chestnut down the road isn't anything like in flower. Beech very patchy, and oak rather variable too.

Walking round the woods the other day with great niece to do a flora survey, we found one of the old beech trees in flower. Found one toothwort in a place we didn't expect it, but not that many of them around this year, although there were lots last year.

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