Today's Weather

[ameno]

The allotment plum was pretty hard hit, despite being covered. I've lost 90% or more of the open flowers. It does still have 20 or more unopened buds, though, which seem to still be okay.
The two akebia were a little damaged here and there, but are mostly fine.

[ameno]

Looks like everything at home managed to survive the frost.
Everything I had on the patio is fine (including the pepper plant in the mini-greenhouse, surprisingly).
The plum trees in the garden have lost around half of their blossoms to the frost, which isn't actually that many considering how many thousands of flowers they have. I imagine I shall still have to thin them heavily later on.
The protected apricot seems as though the fruitlets have survived, although they are so small it's a little hard to tell for sure (they're still green, at least, rather than brown or black, so I think they're fine).
The unprotected apricot it's harder to tell, but I think at least some of the fruitlets seem okay (they still had the dried remains of the petals and sepals wrapped around them, so maybe that acted like a little blanket to keep them warm?).

I have yet to check the allotment. I have another plum there are two akebia vines I am concerned about.

[Mr Bones]

Glad your boiler's fixed Topcat. Thermometer says otherwise but it feels colder out there today than yesterday.

[Topcat]

Ta Dah.
Boiler working again (fan bearing needed lubricating)
Back in the garden again, well greenhouse anyway, bit too cold outside.
Just cleaning and tidying up ready for the tomatoes.

[peanut]

Outside was minus -5c at 7am this morning. The greenhouse was -1c. Cold!

[Mr Bones]

Lovely morning, light high cloud, sunny and -2. No wind yet so a big improvement on yesterday.

[Plot70]

We had ice pellets and snow after a sunny start.
The wind was in a non winging direction so I started clearing up for a hen run extension.

[nick the grief]

arternoon ... stuck my nose out this morning and retracted it tuit suite!! we've had snow on and off all day and its bitey cold so a day for reading some books me thinks

[ameno]

Frost wasn't too heavy last night, so I haven't lost any fruit blossoms.
Tonight is meant to go down to -3, though...

[Topcat]

Just got back from an eye test and while eating lunch checked the weather forecast.
-4 tonight :-(
Better get the boiler apart and see what's wrong with it before that arrives.
Gardening on hold for today.

[Bren In Pots]

It’s been snowing here for the past hour it looks more like polystyrene than snow.

[Nicos]

^^^^ apparently you CAN!!!!

[burnie]

We have a saying in Scotland that you can get all four seasons in one day, but we don't usually get them all at the same time, now I know you can get a rainbow, but can you have a snowbow?

[Nicos]

Just had a quick flurry of snow!

It did look more like blossom blowing off the trees though....and now it’s gone....along with the blue sky

[Mr Bones]

Only real issue today is that our boiler died overnight.
The joys of spring.

Ouch, there's never a good time for that to happen..

Ice this morning but little in the way of frost. Clear and sunny now but with a cold wind. 4°C