Diary of a weekend gardener

Wild, mild and windy

It's mid-December and there's no real sign of winter. The papers are putting it down to global warming, which makes a better headline than 'A series of deep lows in the Atlantic'. Well, I'm not getting into that debate here. What I do know is that the wind has been coming from the SW for weeks now, bringing an endless stream of mild, damp air off the summer-warmed Atlantic and that is the immediate cause of December's weather. Take a look at my weather station link to see for yourself. A statistician worked out that the Gulf Stream delivers more heat energy to the UK than all our power stations put together. May it ever flow.

I took these pictures last week. The weather's been too rough to take decent photos since then.


Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn'. This winter flowerer is sweetly scented and very pretty, but it doesn't always flower reliably for me.


A close-up of the waxy, pale pink flowers.

posted by Sue Beesley @ 5:39 pm