Flowering now
Garak (Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:40:47 PST)

Oh well - I offer the very last few Bomarea edulis flowering in the
unheated but bright garage, and one flower stalk of Kniphofia
sarmentosa, still all green, rising about 10 cm out of the leaves.

About half of the weather models predict double digit negatives °C for
the first week of January, so i might have to evacuate some of the
plants in there - alternatively, I'm thinking about buying a frost
monitor (correct word? Frostwächter in German)...

Outside, there's virtually nothing. Cyclamen hederifolium is long gone,
Galanthus nivalis not showing up yet. The most attractive geophyte right
now must be the seed capsules of Asclepias tuberosum. And even cheating
with non-geophytes is pointless: not a single Primula vulgaris in
flower, and Heleborus orientalis is weeks from flowering. I'm already
fed up with winter , and we're just past the point when the cool-down
doesn't accelerate anymore (= winter solstice), still 2 months to go
with the constant possibility of freak freezing events...

Martin.

Am 28.12.2016 um 22:00 schrieb David Pilling:

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Martin
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Southern Germany
Likely zone 7a