nobleheart: Cause the artic blasts have to get past you to get to us!!!!

yes but stop saying" cold from canada"..as i said,we get it too

Seriously, the weathermen in Texas call it an artic front from Canada. Now refresh my memory. Is not parts of Canada north of the ARTIC circle????

Eriisa: yup are you right ma dear!

Canada has a very large and diverse range of geographic features. Canada is divided into 10 provinces and 2 territories. Canada stretches from the Pacific Ocean on the west, to the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Northern Canada reaches into the Arctic Circle, while southern Canada stretches below the northern points of the United States.

So then, cannot a front originate in the artic while INSIDE Canada???

Eriisa: darn righty it can. I first thought that we didnt have any owner ship in the arctic but I was wrong. Any idea who owns the rest of the arctic?

Rose: Penguins?

Kipling: Try polar bears. Penguins live in the southern hemphispere

Rose: Russia, Canada, USA (the Alaska bit), Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark (the Greenland bit) all own bits of the Arctic.

maybe we should say thae arctic weather comes from nunavut province:
http://www.travelnotes.org/NorthAmerica/images/canada_provinces.gif

I know i'm early but in case i get busy.
Have a blessed day and don't pig out it's not good for the waist line.

yes happy thanks giving to all my american buds...save me a piece of punkin' pie

Forcing branches for indoor bloom is one of the great pleasures of late winter, and it's a snap to do. Branches that force best include the Forsythia & Redbud, as well as Pussy Willow, Quince, Cherry, Apple(ornamental crabapples work well), and Witchhazel.
The easiest way to force blooms is to wait until you notice the buds starting to swell. Then just cut the branches, bring them indoors, put them in water, and wait a few days for them to work their magic.
If you want to introduce the season even sooner, you can cut the branches after the shrub has been dormant at least six weeks. Completely submerge the cuttings in a tub of cold water for several hours. Re-cut the ends, vertically slicing the lower inch or 2 of each branch in half so it can better take up water. Put the branches in a large vase of water in a cool spot near a window, and in two or three weeks, you'll have beautiful blooms.
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to learn more this subject can be searched online
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its not to everyones taste,I myself hate cutting growing things.

Talk about Global warming,last week we had a blizzard.Today it's 66 out right now,now thats crazy for us New Yorkers.

Foxy Lady: We didn't have a blizzard but we had some snow, & we are also in the 60s, which is also bizzaar for us in Pa. I for one would like winter to get here

tinksbell: Isn't it crazy weather?

people think we are all in snow up here in "canada eh" but we got our 1st trace of snow here in richmond hill 2 days ago but rain washed away last night.its been unseasonably warm here too.
our weather here:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/can/Pages/CAON0585.htm

use robots controlled online to plant a flower in a real garden and to water your plant
much more than that to this "growing" community.its free but your must create a login & password:
remote cams can be roboticallly controlled to view the garden & more:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/

an online gardener game:
http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f1749.html

Foxy Lady: yup
:)

tinksbell: We had winds strong enough that it lifted a tree up by the roots.You can see the picture of it if you go to

Uticaod.com

Winter is back we woke up to snow.lol

Foxy Lady: The winds blew down some of our trees too.
:)
We had flurries only during the night, better than nothing
:)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greenery/Christmas%20letters/crimbo2001/photos/garden%20in%20snow.jpg
http://www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylordopryland/press/images/Christmas_GardenConservatory_large.jpg

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

seasons greeting to all my BK freinds.

yay...i'm honored to be added to the mod team. :) and i'm sure i'll learn plenty about gardening here too (i know pretty much nothing about the subject as it is). thank You for the honor of Your invitation, Ms. Foxy - and hi everybody...

plaintiger: Were pretty quiet here right now,wait till Spring.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am - i *bet* it picks up come Spring!

plaintiger: Yes it does some.

Ms. Foxy:

Garden Quotes.

a lovely garden while I was looking after it... but its not been looked after for me the last 9 months, and it looks a bomb site :o(
I cant wait to have one of my own again sometime

Stevie: I can't wait till Spring,which we still can't plant anything till the end of May.

hey the buds on the hazelnut tree in the cemetery are developing..and I saw a bug,outdoors...is spring waking up slowly??is it too early to wish..hey when is ground hog day?

nobleheart: isnt' it in Feb... like on the 2nd??

nobleheart: Here you are talking about the buds coming out and I'm about to collect my hazelnuts. Only 2nd year but we're expecting a couple of dozen hazelnuts.

nobleheart: i saw a moth fluttering madly against the trunk of a tree last night in my headlights, and i knew what S/he was thinking: "damn! it's COLD! i can't fly! this isn't supposed to be happening! helllllllp!!!"

or something much like that, i'm sure.

i think it's the temperature see-saw we've been on all winter, at least around the eastern seaboard here (can you say, "global warming"? sure. i knew you could), and that a few warm days we've had recently have fooled some bugs and buds into coming out way too early.

Ms. ScarletRose: if You mean the first day of spring, and if the Vernal Equinox is the first day of spring, which i believe it is, that's March 20 this year.

ScarletRose: oh - never mind. i wasn't reading carefully enough. You meant groundhog day, which is...*drum roll please*...

yeppers: february 2.

plaintiger: *Giggle*.. will he see his shadowwwwwww?? LOL

nobleheart: LOL we had temps in the 50's highest was Friday it hit 57.Woke up to SNOW this morning.Go figure that out,crazy weather this year.

Post jokes on the Joke Board.There are no nutz on BK and such posts will be deleted.

Foxy Lady: i'm sorry, Lady, i don't understand: "There are no nutz on BK and such posts will be deleted"

plaintiger: i sent you a PM.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. got it.

plaintiger: Wow we hit 48 again today,all the snow is turning to slush.

Foxy Lady: not sure what we got up to today, but it's about 48 out there now, at 8:25...so it was probably 55 or so earlier. and not even February yet. i can imagine what the weather must be like for You during a *real* winter!

plaintiger: Were usually got about a foot of snow and below zero.This really has been crazy for us,but we got Feb,March,and April yet.

Foxy Lady: yeep. i bet.

yeah, i think about the duration of winter differently down here too. You think about having Feb, March, and April yet to go; i think about having February yet to go.

plaintiger:

their are a patch of Snowdrops (Galanthus)in the cemetery near here:

Snowdrops

that come up ..often thro the last snow..as soon as the ground starts to thaw.
it is one of the early signs of winter.I will take a piccie & share..as soon as I see this early sign of spring.

* * * edited by plaintiger to make the link work right, which it wasn't for me before i jumped all over it and fixed it. * * *

only a trace of snow here miss Foxy..but it has been BITTER cold..hands up all those ready for a little outdoor warmth.