It was an all-too-brief taste of warmer days to come - sometime! Yesterday it was sunny, blue skies and well up into the teens. A number of flowers and plants just loved it! Sadly, according to the forecast, it's over for now as you'll see if you read to the end.
The Pansies are doing great, even though they were snowed on four times two weeks ago. I hope they're ready; they may get snowed on again later this week.
Pansies put on some striking different faces!
Our very small Forsythia, planted just last year, are in bloom.
The Hosta shoots out front look like actual leaves now.
And the leaves on our White Birch are bursting out. You can actually see green!
Mrs. F.G. went out in the cold this morning and caught a close-up of our Magnolia. Just planted last year, it's also about to bloom. Looks as if the blooms will be a very pretty pink.
And I'm proud to say that our lawn has the only Dandelions I saw on the entire street. The most popular hobby among the men on the street is maintaining a deep green spotless lawn. Dandelions on a lawn pull down the appearance of the entire neighbourhood! But I think they're nice and they provide early spring food for the bees.
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It was a cold April and it's going to be an even colder May, relative to normal temperatures. The forecast says freezing level low temperatures at night for the rest of this week, with the possibility of snow Friday and Saturday! On Saturday the forecast HIGH is 0°C!
Every now and then the Weather Network publishes a map of temperature anomalies - that is, the extent to which forecast temperatures are above or below normal. This coming month we will sit in the greatest colder than normal anomaly on the planet thanx to that polar vortex! Maybe it'll warm up in June!!!!
Snow for us tomorrow and below zero at night. Burrrr...Close the windows again!
ReplyDeleteI’m for the dandelions too. One side of our street doesn’t use herbicide and has dandelions, the other does. Strange that’s how it worked out.
Dandelions are so necessary, we try to keep them around for the bees.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you for liking the dandelions. I love the yellow poke a dots on a green lawn!!
ReplyDeleteIt has been a weird spring for us, too. Drought for March, rain in April, and now it looks like we're going to jump from winter temperatures into summer! And if only dandelions wouldn't end up in bare stalks, I think more people would like them :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was such a magnificent weekend. The only thing in bloom on my patch right now are the crocus that the snow has barely melted off.
ReplyDeleteHooray for dandelions!!! We have a neighbor who crawls around his lawn cutting out the dandelions. On the other hand, we let ours grow -- a welcome bit of color in the spring and valuable for insects.
ReplyDeleteI actually thought you were in Arizona with your beginning sentence and then caught on. ha ha
ReplyDeleteYesterday was gorgeous! Mrs. F.G.'s flowers are beautiful. If those are your hostas, they are far advanced from mine which are hardly above the ground. No leaves yet.
Thank you for sharing and let's try not to be too disappointed in the weather. Woops! Too late!
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Great pictures of the Flowers.
ReplyDeleteWith your location being further north the we are but this cold weather can leave any time.
Be Safe and Enjoy looking outside.
It's about time.
Some fine pictures of your flowers. It's said to be turning cold here at the weekend - but English cold, not Canadian cold!
ReplyDeleteI like those nice colorful pansies. Yes, our Spring weather sure has been the pits this year. So disappointing for everyone and your right about the future weather forecast looking grim. Not good.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be so cruel to have seventeen degrees one day and have it struggle to get up to eight degrees the next.
ReplyDeleteToday is our youngest grandson's birthday. With the social distancing we simply did a parade. While lining up we noticed a magnolia in bloom.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blooms. I love pansies. Yes, we are in for few chilly days!
ReplyDeleteThe spring flowers are lasting longer in this cool weather. The daffodils seem to have been out for ages and still look great!
ReplyDeletePansies have been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. They are just so colorful how can one not love them. Our daughters both moved just in the past week or two and our granddaughter told her mom she hoped their new yard had the yellow flower(dandelions) and the violets. I am with you and don't mind them. Specially since the bees need them. And as for violets, they are a beautiful plant...even without the flowers, the leaves are gorgeous I think.
ReplyDeleteOh, I do love Pansies! Cold weather does not seem to bother them at all.
ReplyDeleteHope you are having a good week!
So nice to see these beautiful blooms, a wonderful sight.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
i just adore pansies, yours are looking quite beautiful!! we are expecting some real cold and snow friday night in to saturday!!
ReplyDeleteI almost missed seeing the flowers. They look really good. Pansy flowers cant take cold weather. It is nice the forsythia bloomed for you. My red bud fizzled out and didn't finish blooming what it had started.. It go to cold last week.
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