Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Hard frost overnight, now raining. I think this rain is snow further North, further north from my location is somewhere far flung, like Oxford

BC2, my Christmas Cactus is red / pink, I'll try for a photo but it's so dark & gloomy right now not ideal for pictures

Absolutely not a gardening day

DiggerUK

Great day here, snow, snow, and snowing......with 2 and 3 year old grandkids running around going doolally.
Good fortune to all..._ 

Davesnave

Dustings of snow reported to me in the Mendips and Brum, but here in Devon we are mostly sunny with showers so far with a balmy high of 5c and a keen North Westerly wind.

Still weighing my options........

ancientmum

BC2, I've got broad beans, cabbage and onions at the moment.  Something pulled up some of the onion sets when they were first planted but I pushed them back in & they seem to have recovered. Daffs and crocuses poking through. I've not been up there since the wind, reports from others on fb of flying sheds across the plots.
No snow here at sea level but apparently there has been a dusting about 5 miles inland.

ancientofdays

After storm Bella, we had snow yesterday here in Birmingham. The garden looked the prettiest it has been for a while until it melted. More is forecast over the next day or so. We have a Brook,  what I'd call a culvert, just beyond the back garden border and that has been in spate. It drains from a local golf course and I can't see why it is like Davesnave's chocolate stream but it is.

Too cold now for much gardening but my violas and the Hesperantha  are flowering bravely. Bluebells are coming up and daffodils too. Not sure about the crocus bulbs, either they have died or I've forgotten where I planted them. I can see some perennials trying hard to put on new growth for the new year.

Apodemus

Had to make a quick dash down and up the A9 yesterday in the snow (for reasons that are permitted by the current travel restrictions!).  Stunningly beautiful as the sun came up, lighting up pink mountains against a leaden-grey backdrop.  And similar in the afternoon on the way back, with the sort of snow that clings, frozen to every birch twig, bending young trees completely over to touch the ground.  For about 100 miles the car was showing an outside temp of -7C - at which point road-salt and most tyres are not working at their best - yet there were plenty of folk driving as if it was a dry summer's evening and sadly a number of vehicles that won't be back on the road any time soon. 

Farway

Snow here first thing, the wet type that doesn't stick and can't decide if it should be rain or not. It decided on rain in the end

ancientmum said:

BC2, I've got broad beans, cabbage and onions at the moment.  Something pulled up some of the onion sets when they were first planted but I pushed them back in & they seem to have recovered.

Birds are well known for doing that, supposedly they spot the tip & give it tug just in case it's a worm

ancientofdays said:

Too cold now for much gardening but my violas and the Hesperantha  are flowering bravely. Bluebells are coming up and daffodils too. Not sure about the crocus bulbs, either they have died or I've forgotten where I planted them. I can see some perennials trying hard to put on new growth for the new year.

If anything like mine the squirrels have scoffed them .

I just can't grow them because of those devils, but I do like seeing the squirrels so I do without crocus in exchange

Black_Cat2

Lovely to read your posts all 😊. It sounds cold but still somewhat magical outside in your gardens/allotments. 

Look forward to the photo F (you know how I love a pic) 😸👍.  At least you didn't find a shed overturned on your plot am, thank goodness.  It's sweet that the birds see the sprouting onions and mistake them for worms lol but a little annoying for you to have to push them back in.  Hope your crocus bulbs are just hiding aod, it will be a nice surprise when they (hopefully) put in an appearance.  Let's hope the squirrels haven't found them 🤞.  You have a lovely way with words A the way you described the scenery.  I can imagine you being a writer in a different life? 😁

No snow here either D.  Not sure any is forecast just now.  It is bitterly cold though.   Keep warm all 🤗

goldfinches

Bitterly cold here and very waterlogged at the moment. Feels as though all the rain in the Midlands is trying to drain away through our water meadows. Spotted an awful lot of gulls bobbing around this morning after wild and stormy night or two.

Farway

GF, that is some rain, is the area where the gulls are a cricket pitch in summer? Only asking because of the sight screens on the left