BST

[d000hg]

To welcome summer-time, it's pelting with snow here and set to go sub-zero.

Quite an interesting history to BST as it turns out. It's well-known we had double-summer time in WW2 but I hadn't known this was reintroduced post-war during fuel shortages... history repeating? Or that for for a period fo a few years, we had permanent summer time.

We could go the "Global Warming is dumb" line but let's stay topical...

[SueEllen]

I love the British weather.

Now where was the coat I bought for winter.

[ladymuck]

I very much dislike the twice-yearly messing about with clocks. We should stick to GMT such that solar noon is roughly clock noon (not exact, I know, but would be better aligned than now).

[OwlHoot]

To welcome summer-time, it's pelting with snow here and set to go sub-zero. ..

So glad I don't live perched on a rock in the Outer Hebrides, as it sounds like you do! It's warm and sunny here in Devon

[d000hg]

So glad I don't live perched on a rock in the Outer Hebrides, as it sounds like you do! It's warm and sunny here in Devon

Durham... so somewhere in-between Lovely last week but we have only just had the daffs appear and trees aren't in leaf yet. Imagine everything is well in bloom down there. It really is quite notable how much things vary - I came from Cornwall and doubly so there.

[OwlHoot]

Durham... so somewhere in-between Lovely last week but we have only just had the daffs appear and trees aren't in leaf yet. Imagine everything is well in bloom down there. It really is quite notable how much things vary - I came from Cornwall and doubly so there.

Yes, the daffs have been out for a couple of weeks here now, although I tend to prefer primroses as they last longer.

You may know this, as you sound like a gardening type. I've noticed there seem to be two distinct types of daffodils, one a deep yellow and the other a much paler almost white and with slightly smaller flowers. The whitish ones usually seem to be among the yellower ones, so most likely they are just a different variety of daffs. But I wondered if they might be another species entirely, and called something else.

[ladymuck]

Yes, the daffs have been out for a couple of weeks here now, although I tend to prefer primroses as they last longer.

You may know this, as you sound like a gardening type. I've noticed there seem to be two distinct types of daffodils, one a deep yellow and the other a much paler almost white and with slightly smaller flowers. The whitish ones usually seem to be among the yellower ones, so most likely they are just a different variety of daffs. But I wondered if they might be another species entirely, and called something else.

All the daffs
https://www.gardenia.net/plants/plan...s_--_daffodils

[OwlHoot]

All the daffs
https://www.gardenia.net/plants/plan...s_--_daffodils

Thanks. Good heavens, I had no idea there were so many varieties. I thought there were just the dark yellow ones!

I suppose next you'll be saying there's more than one kind of grass!

[d000hg]

My favourites are the white ones with orange trumpets.

Though I'd wondered if you were talking about narcissus which AFAIK are mini daffs

[WTFH]

Loads of daffs out in our garden, many of them must have been planted years ago around trees that no longer exist, as we have 3 large clusters coming up in the lawn between some of the apple trees and near the big plum tree. The apple trees that are still here all have the same variety around them as the other clusters. The border near one wall of the garden has a wide variety and it's a good job they grew - the border has slate clippings on the top of it and we thought it was just somewhere the previous owner had plant pots until the daffs (and now tulips) started to appear.