THIS TIME LAST YEAR
This time last year, 23 May 2012, my loganberry vine was in full bloom. This time, 24 May 2013, there is not one single, solitary, flower-bud forming that I can see. It faces approximately south-east. The Polka raspberry, which faces south-west, is full of nice, fat, developing buds. Polka gets early morning sun from the east and then it is shaded by the shed for a short while until the sun comes around and shines on it again and it faces the sun right until it goes down in the west in the evening. The loganberry gets sun a little later than Polka due to neighbouring trees, then loses sun earlier in the evening. All to do with rooftops and open spaces causing shadow.
I was watching the televised annual Chelsea Flower Show (RHS link) this year and one of the exhibitors was saying how everyone had had a difficult year because plants were so far behind due to lack of sun and cold temperatures.
It was hailing yesterday and today the wind is strong and icy. I've taken the hanging baskets out of my kitchen but placed them on the patio outside, just behind the gate where they will get light but be sheltered from the wind. The tomatoes have gone out into the mini-greenhouse and I am pleased to say that the special Tomato Growbag Growhouse that I ordered yesterday has already been despatched and is on its way to me. It cannot arrive soon enough.
Come on weather, knock it off!
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| Polka raspberry 16 May 2013 |
It was hailing yesterday and today the wind is strong and icy. I've taken the hanging baskets out of my kitchen but placed them on the patio outside, just behind the gate where they will get light but be sheltered from the wind. The tomatoes have gone out into the mini-greenhouse and I am pleased to say that the special Tomato Growbag Growhouse that I ordered yesterday has already been despatched and is on its way to me. It cannot arrive soon enough.
Come on weather, knock it off!