Spring a ling 2024.

[Stan]

Its been sunny and nice but the rain clouds are to make it here by the weekend. How about you?

[mickthecactus]

Sunny today and up to 18c but down to 8c at the weekend.

[Stan]

That run of 70F the last week or so felt great. It's over tomorrow followed by a week of cool rains. March did the lion-lamb-back to lion on us.

[mcvansoest]

Definitely got spring going on, but every 1.5-2 weeks we get a short cool down with a chance of rain... it has rained relatively often, so the wildflowers (and if you look carefully between the wildflowers, also the weeds) have gone crazy:

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There is some yard work in my future cleaning that all up...

[Aeonium2003]

Lampranthus flowers from spring last year.

[westfork]

Snow forecast for four days followed by single digit f lows on Wednesday. But had time this week to push some rocks together for another arid berm while the ground was mostly frozen.

Island berm

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[Meangreen94z]

These were from last weekend. I’ll update tomorrow. It’s been Spring temperatures for a month here. It’s really given me a jumpstart at my new house.

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[Gafoto]

We had a nice run of high 60s with full sun. Everything started perking up. Now we’ve got rain and temps getting close to freezing at night. Might even get a little snow. Hopefully it passes quickly and we can warm up soon for real.

[mickthecactus]

Where’s Stan?

Miserable and sunless here.

[edds]

I'm currently on holiday in South Devon. Warm but very windy and wet. My son popped out yesterday to clean the windows...

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[Meangreen94z]

We had a bad thunderstorm last night, it dropped baseball sized hail elsewhere but none here.

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[nsp88]

We had a bad thunderstorm last night, it dropped baseball sized hail elsewhere but none here.
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Is that first photo in a place somewhere visible to the public? If so, can you send me the location in a message, please?

[Meangreen94z]

We had a bad thunderstorm last night, it dropped baseball sized hail elsewhere but none here.
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Is that first photo in a place somewhere visible to the public? If so, can you send me the location in a message, please?

Its on the main road through Jonestown, Texas, on the western outskirts.

[Paul S]

Completely mad English spring weather. Friday and Saturday just gone it was 21C/70F. Today we just had a hail storm pass through with heavy rain and gusty winds and it is 6C/43F.

[edds]

Completely mad English spring weather. Friday and Saturday just gone it was 21C/70F. Today we just had a hail storm pass through with heavy rain and gusty winds and it is 6C/43F.

We got up to 10.2oC here today but there was a lot of hail along with it! Minimum was 4.6 though.

[Gafoto]

One of my Aloinopsis has put on quite a show.

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[Meangreen94z]

Typical spring weather for the next couple weeks

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Gymnocalycium saglionis

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Parodia roseoluteus

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Parodia roseoluteus

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[nsp88]

Warm weather with a lot of rain most of winter and spring = my agaves out in the hay field were in a sad state. I have gone out there a couple of times and hand-pulled grass away from them so they would get some sun, but they keep getting covered up in grass. Have to leave markers by them so we don't run them over when the grass grows. Finally went and mowed everything, and planted a few that graduated out of my raised bed. Ran out of time, so I didn't get to dig channels and fill with gravel for better drainage or spray ornamec. Hopefully this week.

The havardianas I got from my neighbor and funkiana from abborean were the winners this winter. They handled the wet winter far better than any others out there. Interestingly, the havardiana I got from a nursery and some funkiana fatal attraction I got elsewhere were both losers this winter. Also, I separated a two-in-one parryi and put them out in the field late last summer. One half did fairly decent and the other half lost a lot of leaves. Interesting such a difference for same genes and same location.

Literally ran over some baby rabbits on the lawn mower, but thankfully didn't harm them. There were 5 total, but can't see them all in one photo.

There are agaves in there somewhere

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Hopefully ornamec makes it more manageable. If not, I may place that black cloth down that nurseries use.

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[nsp88]

Ooh, a couple of other things from this spring.

The eclipse went right over us. We had a lot of cloud cover where I live, so we drove a bit and ended up with great visibility. Some cloud cover in the beginning but then was clear the entirety of totality.

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Also, moved a few larger plants out of and a lot of smaller plants into the raised bed at my apartment. It is pretty crowded, but it should work until fall and spring when I make more changes. Needs some top dressing but I'm always changing things up in there so I haven't messed with it yet. Maybe someday.

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