It’s good to be a pensioner when the weather is like it’s been recently with three in a row heavy snowfalls and probably the most snow I’ve experienced […]
Garden views / Snow
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Hundreds of thousands of flower buds
There was a heavy heavy snow fall during the night – heavy in depth of snow and heavy in that the snow itself is wet and branches were […]
Onions / Snow
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Snow onions
Various Allium species are the hardiest of edible plants either staying green all winter (e.g., Allium cernuum and Allium carinatum) or sprouting very early and able to withstand […]
Birds / Snow
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Redwings are back
I was in the garden this morning and heard the contact call of the (European) redwing (rødvingetrost), described as a thin, drawn and sharp “sreee”. It’s always a […]
Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Hail Hablitzia
Yesterday it hailed on my collection of Hablitzia plants…and today they were covered in a white blanket: Post Views: 120
Fjord views / Snow
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Fjord views 31st January
Some beautiful views the last couple of days between snow showers: Post Views: 108
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Cold Man’s Beard
A few day’s later, following on from my post on Old Man’s Beard! https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=27221 Post Views: 80
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Floppy Habby
It’s that time of year that Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) goes all floppy and needs help to go upwards rather than sideways! The floppiness you see […]
Birds / Fjord views / Snow
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Third day of snow
3 mornings in a row new snow has greeted me, but it mostly melts again during the day. I’m feeling for people in the north where the arctic […]
Bees / Berries / Pollinators / Snow
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Bumble bee in snow
I didn’t expect to find a bumble bee feeding first thing this morning but I found this Bombus hypnorum (tree bumblebee/trehumle) busy visiting flowers of Ribes divaricatum and […]
Fjord views / Snow
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More of the white stuff
Most of yesterday’s snowfall melted during the day, but it was back again this morning… Post Views: 102
Perennial vegetables / Snow
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No problem, we’re perennials!
It was forecast several days ago but it was uncertain if the snow would lie down here at sea level. Nevertheless it was a shock to wake to […]
Fjord views / Snow
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Dramatic Spring Days
You appreciate the sunny spring days much more when you have a couple of days of blizzards in between….our resident robin, blackbird and chaffinch were back singing today! […]
Biennial / Birds / Snow
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Summer Time
We put the clocks forward last night. It’s now Summer Time! However, nature is thinking otherwise and from flowering crocus, snowdrops and wild Hepatica nobilis (blåveis) everything is […]
Snow
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Brighter today
Everything was much brighter today after a very wet Wednesday and wet heavy snow was weighing all the branches down and I even had to avoid hanging branches […]
Seed / Seed sowing / Snow
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The last seed?
A delayed Xmas this year, celebrating at the weekend when my daughter is here….spent the wait sowing seed and the 54th milk carton seed tray for 2019, perennials […]
Birds / clouds / Snow
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Heavy snow and mother of pearls
Woke up this morning to a beautiful sight of deep snow on the balcony and mother of pearl clouds (perlemorskyer) in the sky. Added to the garden full […]
Fjord views / Snow
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Ever-changing view
The ever-changing view, friday was windy and this morning’s surprise whiteness…the first of the autumn, No panci at getting up the carrots, parsnip and perennials for forcing as […]
Birds / Snow
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Hoodies and pussy willows
Hooded crows (kråke) and goat willow (selje) coming into flower! Post Views: 108
Snow
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The Hanging Edible Garden
Heavy wet snow isn’t that common here…after the storm yesterday the garden was hanging this morning and even had to duck to get out of the front door […]
Birds / Snow
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Fieldfares in snow
Let it snow, let it snow! Had expected rain today, but heavy wet snow instead…put out apples for the thrushes this morning and a small flock of fieldfares […]
Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Perennial kale snow blanket
Just the tallest of the perennial kales are now visible above the snow! Hope this continues as there’s a much better chance of them overwintering when there’s a […]
Fjord views / Snow / Sun
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Snow scenes
Several days with snow showers and we now have the deepest snow for this time of year since 1986! Under the thick layer of snow the soil is […]
Fjord views / Snow / weather
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January storm
It was a dramatic night here with high winds, snow, hail and there was even a thunderstorm at 4 am (not common in winter here!)….a Polar Low (polar […]