First Signs of Spring

[Accy cyclist]

Some bulbs in my local cemetery have popped up their chutes/shootes.👍

 

[biggs682]

Thread resurrection.
Saw my first lambs of 2024 today shame they were in a barn rather than out in a field.

 

[Slick]

Thread resurrection.
Saw my first lambs of 2024 today shame they were in a barn rather than out in a field.

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Funny, at my last place which is only around 20 miles away, I would see lambs in the field from new year almost. I'm looking at a farm now from my couch and the sheep are still out but no signs of any lambs yet.

 

[Drago]

Cut the grass today.

 

[biggs682]

Funny, at my last place which is only around 20 miles away, I would see lambs in the field from new year almost. I'm looking at a farm now from my couch and the sheep are still out but no signs of any lambs yet.

The one's I saw were a good few weeks old by the look of it and is the normal place I have spotted first lambs for the last few years.

A customer who I used to deal with lived in the middle of Scotland and the family farm she lived on always had them from valentine's day onwards roughly.

 

[biggs682]

Cut the grass today.

Yes ours could do with a trim just needs a few more days to dry out though.

 

[Slick]

The one's I saw were a good few weeks old by the look of it and is the normal place I have spotted first lambs for the last few years.

A customer who I used to deal with lived in the middle of Scotland and the family farm she lived on always had them from valentine's day onwards roughly.

I'm sure there will be differences geographically even within Scotland and not all will want to breed twice a year.

 

[Drago]

Yes ours could do with a trim just needs a few more days to dry out though.

I set the mower to a good height and used a mulch blade rather than the grass box. Should be nice and green when spring finally arrives for 16 hours in October.

 

[Accy cyclist]

It's getting lighter in the late evening. Er, that's the only sign of spring I can see. Apart from that it's still peeing down, still blowing a gale and snow is forecast for next week!!

 

[Alex321]

Daffs are usually starting to come out around mid-Feb, because there are usually plenty of them by St David's day.

I've seen a few, plus snowdrops and some crocuses.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Daffs are usually starting to come out around mid-Feb, because there are usually plenty of them by St David's day.

I've seen a few, plus snowdrops and some crocuses.

I thought about buying some cut ones yesterday for my dad's grave, but in this bleak weather I doubt they'd open up fully enough to be noticed. Yes, I know they start to die the moment they are cut, but after 22 years of putting them on his grave I've found the warmer the weather, the more they're likely to open up.

 

[Gunk]

Cut the grass today.

I was tempted to do ours, but ran out of time yesterday

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Snowdrops have been out for a couple of weeks here, a handful of early daffs now showing. Heard my first skylark two weeks ago, and heard the woodpeckers drumming this week.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Yesterday I specifically went out to photo some hazel tree flowers, I love tracking them down at this time of year. Most people know the catkins, but the flowers (female) are the tiny red ones above the catkins (male) in the photo, really easy to miss. These, when fertilized by the pollen from the catkins (must be from another tree) are what develop into hazelnuts.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Daffs are usually starting to come out around mid-Feb, because there are usually plenty of them by St David's day.

I've seen a few, plus snowdrops and some crocuses.

There's a clump of daffs near me which flower really early. Over the years the earliest they have been out was 10th December, this year it was 20th Dec. I have some daffs in my garden which are only just showing and will be flowering into late April/ early May. I guess that means you could have daffs in flower for almost half a year!