Welcome to Spring, everyone who lives in the Northern hemisphere. For all those South of the Equator, Welcome to Fall! Hope every gets in some time to revitalize and refresh. I know I spent this week doing some Spring cleaning and clearing out the cupboards of all that unused clutter.

:giggles: The one thing I love about these North Americans is the way they time the arrival of Spring right to the minute! This morning when I was driving in to work they were doing the countdown. I questioned Flash about whyyyyy go to that extreme and once he went in to the whole "rotation of the Earth and it's proximity to the Sun and... blah blah" thing I kind of chuckled. He asked me how we work it out in Australia. I told him we just went by the first of the month. Ya know. 1st March is the first day of Fall, 1st June is Winter, 1st Sept Spring, 1st Dec Summer ... At least I think that's the breakdown ... But. Nice to know that here in Toronto we woke to -5 for our first day of Spring. Going to get up to 3 today! Whoot whoot!! So yay to we North Americans!!! The big warm up is here!!!! SJ

Yes it is starting to warm up but, ... dare I say it? I still expect to see another snowfall or two. After all we ARE still only March. Statistically, here in TO, we can see a snowfall until May.

Originally posted by clouddancer Yes it is starting to warm up but, ... dare I say it? I still expect to see another snowfall or two. After all we ARE still only March. Statistically, here in TO, we can see a snowfall until May.

Shhhhh .... shhhhh ... Don't you let Mother Nature hear you say something like that. You just KNOW she'll leap all over it and send us more snow.

Yeah I've been cleaning the past week to. I definitely notice the weather getting and the sun coming out more. Almost time to plant those flowers...

It was warming up here this past week, but it's going to be cooler this weekend. Next week we might be in the 70s F (low 20s C) again!

Originally posted by shamrokchick Yeah I've been cleaning the past week to. I definitely notice the weather getting and the sun coming out more. Almost time to plant those flowers...

I put some bulbs in pots late fall and finally brought them out of the refrigerator this week. I hope to see the bulbs in the next few weeks. I also took some cuttings. So I am looking forward to seeing some new life begin to grow.

Originally posted by clouddancer

Originally posted by shamrokchick Yeah I've been cleaning the past week to. I definitely notice the weather getting and the sun coming out more. Almost time to plant those flowers...

I put some bulbs in pots late fall and finally brought them out of the refrigerator this week. I hope to see the bulbs in the next few weeks. I also took some cuttings. So I am looking forward to seeing some new life begin to grow.

Me too. I just want to see some color outside again.

My crocuses and daffodils are blooming here in Indianapolis, but not the tulips, lilies or irises, and I haven't had to mow the lawn... yet. It's been sunny and fairly warm (nice!), and my ancient, creaky cat is once again spending a good part of his day sleeping outside on the deck.

I'm glad that my jasmine plant is blooming--it only does so once a year. Now, to get motivated to get rid of the pile of junk in my patio!

Its cold and rainy here, but hey, its Seattle, cant expect much!! LOL we are heading down to AZ and i heard its warm and sunny there!!

Originally posted by SJ_SwanJun :giggles: The one thing I love about these North Americans is the way they time the arrival of Spring right to the minute! This morning when I was driving in to work they were doing the countdown. I questioned Flash about whyyyyy go to that extreme and once he went in to the whole "rotation of the Earth and it's proximity to the Sun and... blah blah" thing I kind of chuckled. He asked me how we work it out in Australia. I told him we just went by the first of the month. Ya know. 1st March is the first day of Fall, 1st June is Winter, 1st Sept Spring, 1st Dec Summer ... At least I think that's the breakdown ... But. Nice to know that here in Toronto we woke to -5 for our first day of Spring. Going to get up to 3 today! Whoot whoot!! So yay to we North Americans!!! The big warm up is here!!!! SJ

Well for me, it's March, the beginning of spring, June, the start of summer, September the beginning of autumn and October/November is the start of winter. Though knowing our bloody weather, we will have the raining season, ie April showers and the usual summer mini tornadoes and thunderstorms.

Spring is probably my favorite season. It's nice and warm, but not too hot. Everything gets nice and green. It's just nice and enjoyable. And yeah I'm starting to do some spring cleaning around the house. Namely some of my closets.

Spring kind of sneaks up on us around here. The fields start growing fresh grass (and weeds) in late January when you'd think it's much too cold for new growth; by now the stuff is nearly three feet tall and everthing that can bloom, has been. Some dwarf iris I had in a pot and hadn't even watered for three months abruptly sprouted back in February, startling the crud out of me. But by now the frosts have tapered almost to nothing, and there are little leaves fringing about half the trees. The tulips are just starting to bloom, and the hyacinths have gone through two bloom cycles already. The daffodils have gone insane; I think they're competing with one another for number of flowers. That grocery store carrot I stuck in the ground in October as a joke has turned the tables on me and shot up a two-foot-tall forest of greenery and nearly doubled its diameter, becoming what we used to call a "horse carrot." And the Dutch irises are threatening to take over the entire garden box. The giant jade plant on the south patio continues to try to overturn its pot so that it can crawl for the open ground, and it's been blooming nonstop since November; I can't for the life of me figure out why it wants to bloom in the winter, but it's abundantly happy to be living in this valley. The peonies started sprouting a few weeks ago and are aggressively trying to make up for their crummy year last year. They're still mad about being in pots. And I really should divide that garlic that I potted when we moved: it's in a shallow daffodil pot, and has multiplied so many times that I half expect it to crack the thing wide open! Of course with the arrival of spring, we're also getting the opening acts of the Rooster Soap Opera. Arrgh. I'm gonna have to get out there and

Cloud is sitting here laughing at the imagery Barrdwing paints. Plants trying to escape and Roosters gone wild..... are you sure you are not with Galactor? Raising mecha to harass the world.

I have compared Barrdwing's roosters with Galactors before, and she keeps denying it! But it's still rather suspicious, if you ask me... Personally, I think Galactor is using them to keep an eye on James. After all, he is the foremost world expert on Gatchology!

I'm sooo jealous of those of you who have Spring already springing in your areas. How did we celebrate the onset of Spring here?? Well, when Spring sprung at 7:44am on Friday, it was snowing... But a few brave daffodils have blossomed and I noticed on Friday as I was leaving work that the cherry blossoms were just starting to form on the cherry trees. So far that's all of spring and renewal I have seen. But it seems that every year the trees are still in their dormant state one day, and the next they all have buds. That should happen soon, I hope!

Spring is my favourite season, more sun, warmer weather, plants shooting up, buds on trees, to me it seems full of promise of good things to come. I've been in the garden, planting bulbs and plants and feeling happy that things I thought had died are actually showing shoots.

Originally posted by Barrdwing Spring kind of sneaks up on us around here. The fields start growing fresh grass (and weeds) in late January when you'd think it's much too cold for new growth; by now the stuff is nearly three feet tall and everthing that can bloom, has been. Some dwarf iris I had in a pot and hadn't even watered for three months abruptly sprouted back in February, startling the crud out of me. But by now the frosts have tapered almost to nothing, and there are little leaves fringing about half the trees. The tulips are just starting to bloom, and the hyacinths have gone through two bloom cycles already. The daffodils have gone insane; I think they're competing with one another for number of flowers. That grocery store carrot I stuck in the ground in October as a joke has turned the tables on me and shot up a two-foot-tall forest of greenery and nearly doubled its diameter, becoming what we used to call a "horse carrot." And the Dutch irises are threatening to take over the entire garden box. The giant jade plant on the south patio continues to try to overturn its pot so that it can crawl for the open ground, and it's been blooming nonstop since November; I can't for the life of me figure out why it wants to bloom in the winter, but it's abundantly happy to be living in this valley. The peonies started sprouting a few weeks ago and are aggressively trying to make up for their crummy year last year. They're still mad about being in pots. And I really should divide that garlic that I potted when we moved: it's in a shallow daffodil pot, and has multiplied so many times that I half expect it to crack the thing wide open! Of course with the arrival of spring, we're also getting the opening acts of the Rooster Soap Opera. Arrgh. I'm gonna have to get out there and

I don't suppose you have any giant killer tomatoes, man eating triffods or even those Swan swallowing plants? My guess is that it's another Galactor plan and very soon the team will have to deal iwth a huge daffodil mech.

Have done some yard work, along with planting things inside. Hoping to get them out sometime in the near future.

We had a couple of giant killer tomato plants, Met, but the frost did for them. I'm planning to get a couple of half-barrels this year to plant the replacements in: these modern tomatoes are freakin' scary, they put a branch down and the thing takes root! As for the roosters, jeez, I really do need to post some photos with links. Between the Polish Crested and those two Silkies, they really do look like some kind of outer-space mutations!