HAILSTONES IN WEST YORKSHIRE, APRIL 2016

I went to a garden centre this morning, earlier than I would usually go because snow had been forecast for this afternoon; and the weatherman/woman got it right for once.  It might not settle long as the temperature is above zero but it is coming down long and plentiful, and it does feel more like winter out there than spring approaching summer.  I've bought lots of perennial plants in pots for putting into the borders but right now they are gathered together on a table against the wall of my home with a little protection from the wall and the (closed) overhead garden awning.  No, I am not thinking that the cold might damage the plants but the weight of snow can ruin flowers and snap delicate stems.  I am just hoping that the weather doesn't damage my beautiful Obdam daffodils.  I had thought I had lost them all last winter but no, up they have come yet again. 

Beautiful Obdam daffodil.



Obdam daffodils, 2nd May 2013