Daffodils in my garden started to bloom yesterday - 23 February,
earliest date since 1998.

Exactly a month earlier than last year, when the first bloom did not
appear until 23 March (latest since 1996).


Date of first daffodil in flower since 1993:

1993 18 February
1994 - not noted -
1995 18 February
1996 23 March
1997 28 February
1998 20 February
1999 25 February
2000 24 February
2001 11 March
2002 1 March
2003 6 March
2004 28 February
2005 6 March
2006 23 March
2007 23 February - earliest since 1998

Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer

On 24 Feb, 10:44, "Stephen Burt" wrote:
Daffodils in my garden started to bloom yesterday - 23 February,
earliest date since 1998.

Exactly a month earlier than last year, when the first bloom did not
appear until 23 March (latest since 1996).

Date of first daffodil in flower since 1993:

1993 * *18 February
1994 * *- not noted -
1995 * *18 February
1996 * *23 March
1997 * *28 February
1998 * *20 February
1999 * *25 February
2000 * *24 February
2001 * *11 March
2002 * *1 March
2003 * *6 March
2004 * *28 February
2005 * *6 March
2006 * *23 March
2007 * *23 February *- earliest since 1998

Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer


Still waiting in my garden, although the heads are showing a definite
yellow.

Unfortunately although living here since 1988, I did not start logging
these events until 2001.

My dates for first daffodil in 'full blow' are as follows.

2001: 15 March.
2002: 6 March.
2003: 11 March.
2004: 4 March.
2005: 8 March.
2006: 26 March.

It looks as though my average dates are about 4/5 days after yours,
so maybe 27/28th Feb for here this year.

Dick Lovett

Charlbury 121 m asl (OXON Cotswolds)

Like most low lying sites in the Southeast,my garden daffodils have been
showing 'yellow for a couple of weeks now , in fact the wild daffs on our
public green first appeared in bloom at the end of January !.
I've been wondering though for some time just unusual that actually
is,because if the national flower of Wales is the daffodil ,and their
national day is March 1st, it must have been quite normal for the flower to
be in full bloom by the end of February. !
Pick the bones out of that......

RonB
"Stephen Burt" wrote in message
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Daffodils in my garden started to bloom yesterday - 23 February,
earliest date since 1998.

Exactly a month earlier than last year, when the first bloom did not
appear until 23 March (latest since 1996).


Date of first daffodil in flower since 1993:

1993 18 February
1994 - not noted -
1995 18 February
1996 23 March
1997 28 February
1998 20 February
1999 25 February
2000 24 February
2001 11 March
2002 1 March
2003 6 March
2004 28 February
2005 6 March
2006 23 March
2007 23 February - earliest since 1998

Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer

In article ,
Ron Button writes:
Like most low lying sites in the Southeast,my garden daffodils have been
showing 'yellow for a couple of weeks now , in fact the wild daffs on our
public green first appeared in bloom at the end of January !.
I've been wondering though for some time just unusual that actually
is,because if the national flower of Wales is the daffodil ,and their
national day is March 1st, it must have been quite normal for the flower to
be in full bloom by the end of February. !
Pick the bones out of that......

Interesting point. But before we switched to the Gregorian calendar in
1752, the 1st March would have fallen on what is now the 12th, I think.
--
John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)

Ron Button writes:
Like most low lying sites in the Southeast,my garden daffodils have
been
showing 'yellow for a couple of weeks now , in fact the wild daffs on
our
public green first appeared in bloom at the end of January

.... -ditto- here in Bracknell (at least this bit of it), with the
'public' daffs well out last week of January, and our garden variety
(front/most sunshine) out for about a week. Certainly 'early', but no
records on this. Provisionally, we're heading for the *second* warmest
winter (DJF) since 1971.

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
Bracknell

On Feb 24, 11:32 am, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Ron Button writes:

Like most low lying sites in the Southeast,my garden daffodils have been
showing 'yellow for a couple of weeks now , in fact the wild daffs on our
public green first appeared in bloom at the end of January !.
I've been wondering though for some time just unusual that actually
is,because if the national flower of Wales is the daffodil ,and their
national day is March 1st, it must have been quite normal for the flower to
be in full bloom by the end of February. !
Pick the bones out of that......

Interesting point. But before we switched to the Gregorian calendar in
1752, the 1st March would have fallen on what is now the 12th, I think.

I should have thought it was more in line with saint days, patron
saints, national flags and the genesis of other pagan idols such as
British lions and etc.

Meaningless claptrap.

Dear Mr lawyer ,or may I call you Weather ?,I don't think all you write is
meaningless claptrap,on the contrary some of it is quite meaningful.....

RonB
"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
oups.com...
On Feb 24, 11:32 am, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Ron Button writes:

Like most low lying sites in the Southeast,my garden daffodils have been
showing 'yellow for a couple of weeks now , in fact the wild daffs on
our
public green first appeared in bloom at the end of January !.
I've been wondering though for some time just unusual that actually
is,because if the national flower of Wales is the daffodil ,and their
national day is March 1st, it must have been quite normal for the flower
to
be in full bloom by the end of February. !
Pick the bones out of that......

Interesting point. But before we switched to the Gregorian calendar in
1752, the 1st March would have fallen on what is now the 12th, I think.

I should have thought it was more in line with saint days, patron
saints, national flags and the genesis of other pagan idols such as
British lions and etc.

Meaningless claptrap.

On Feb 24, 8:08 pm, "Ron Button" wrote:

Dear Mr Lawyer, or may I call you Weather?

I don't think.

All you write is meaningless claptrap on the contrary. Some of it is quite meaningful.....

You aught to get yourself a copy of Firefox or a copy of a digital
office programme and a book on internet etiquette for lamers.

You might have to get a dictionary add on if you go the Firefox route
and set the English English version as default.

I hope you don't mind me correcting your top posting and grammar and
etc..

Call me: Sir.

dwarf narcissi fully out in front lawn 21 Feb


--
John T
Solihull UK
126m asl.

"Ron Button" wrote in message
...
Like most low lying sites in the Southeast,my garden daffodils have been
showing 'yellow for a couple of weeks now , in fact the wild daffs on our
public green first appeared in bloom at the end of January !.
I've been wondering though for some time just unusual that actually
is,because if the national flower of Wales is the daffodil ,and their
national day is March 1st, it must have been quite normal for the flower
to be in full bloom by the end of February. !
Pick the bones out of that......

RonB
There are a lot of different varieties of daffodil which flower at different
times. Obviously comparing the same plants on a year by year basis is valid
but nothing can be learnt from comparing the flowering time of different
varieties at different locations.

Alan
Chiswell Green (where a few early flowering varieties are out but not in my
garden).