This year, I am staying in Eastern Canada for the summer. Exciting! I am a garden enthusiast, and moving into a new biome means there is a lot to explore in both the cultivated and natural world. According to the map below, my current area is temperate broadleaf forest, compared to other photos on the blog that come from an area called temperate steppe.
Warm weather, flowers and greenery has come to London much sooner than my home city in the Canadian prairies, which experienced snow flurries yesterday. However, my husband did send recent photos of the tulips blooming, so things are waking up back home as well.
First thing to notice is that with the milder London winters, spring-flowering bulbs and corms are more diverse here. Try as I did in my early gardening years, there is no way I could get daffodils (in the featured image) or the saffron-bearing crocus to grow in my prairie garden. These are all common in southern Ontario, where London is located.
Some of the early spring delights, from about five weeks ago on April 12, 2022.
A week later, a minor set back to warm weather:
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It seems the climate in London is similar to ours in middle Europe! Here, tulips are now completely withered, are magnolia are common in private gardens. But Eastern Austria is gradually becoming more steppe-like – every year a new heat and dryness record! I have witnessed significant change in the past decades – unfortunately backed up by statistics. When I was a child, winters nearly without snow (like: having to shovel on one or two days maximum) and summer days with more than 30°C were rare – now both are the norm. There is a small yellow patch in Eastern Europe – I guess it is growing.
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I think that the local weather is greatly moderated by the Great Lakes system here, but that said, there was a sudden and powerful storm last weekend that came in mid-morning and has caused a lot of problem. The cities further north had a lot of damage with falling trees. Power has not been available in many places for days after. Several people were killed. From the local news, it seems this is not the usual, which has meant that an area of our country that maybe has previously not felt these great changes is now experiencing them as well.
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