Spring has sprung! Has it?!

[french frank]

Only just noticed how old this thread is, but as for the OP, equinoxi? EQUINOXI? . Equinox is an English word with a plural equinoxes. If you want the Latin form, shouldn't it be equinoctia (rather than equinoctes) as the plural of aequinoctium (n)?

Anyway, in my garden: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough - in fact the blossom will soon be dropping. There isn't much that isn't showing sign of life so, yes, it's spring.

Here's what my inside chap at the Met Office is saying:

"The seasonal equinoxi were once markers

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hadn't noticed that - equinoxious!

[french frank]

Hadn't noticed that - equinoxious!

Oh, yes, and criterii, stigmae would be equinoxious. Blue sky and sunshine here at the moment, and my hawthorn tree - a new planting last autumn - is also covered in green buds (to stay on topic).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We had a heavy burst of hailstone between seven and eight this morning to welcome the Spring. Cleared away now, and there is sunshine, with dark grey-blue clouds. Plenty of "promise" in the garden - not least a single clump of huge, bright yellow daffodils in one of the borders. Where they've never appeared before. And where I didn't plant them. And where I don't want them.

[cloughie]

We had a heavy burst of hailstone between seven and eight this morning to welcome the Spring. Cleared away now, and there is sunshine, with dark grey-blue clouds. Plenty of "promise" in the garden - not least a single clump of huge, bright yellow daffodils in one of the borders. Where they've never appeared before. And where I didn't plant them. And where I don't want them.

Blame it on the birds! Here it is a bright hail showery, and a tad cooler.

[french frank]

We had a heavy burst of hailstone between seven and eight this morning to welcome the Spring.

D'you live in my back garden! I was just about to go out, the sky greyed over - and, yes, little hailstones for a few moments. Cleared away now, and there is sunshine, with dark grey-blue clouds. Oh, no - no sunshine now, just … In short, yes, it's spring …

Plenty of "promise" in the garden - not least a single clump of huge, bright yellow daffodils in one of the borders. Where they've never appeared before. And where I didn't plant them. And where I don't want them.

Never mind, dig them up and plant them where you'd rather they were. I have that problem with foxgloves: it's just that they never thrive where I want them to be.

[ahinton]

Hadn't noticed that - equinoxious!

supercalifragilisticequialinoxious?

[Pulcinella]

Sleet by the time it got here!
Generally bright now, but clouds of various colour from white to ominous grey scudding past at quite a lick.
We are contemplating being midly subversive by (trans)planting some miniature daffodils from pots (bought to cheer the house up indoors) under the new trees on the open meadow strip (community land) between the house and the beck. Is that very wicked?

PS: Actually, will they survive, or will they have been so cultivated for indoors that they will not like it outdoors?

[vinteuil]

Plenty of "promise" in the garden - not least a single clump of huge, bright yellow daffodils in one of the borders. Where they've never appeared before. And where I didn't plant them. And where I don't want them.

... clearly a visitation from the narcissus equivalent of Miss Willmott or Johnny Appleseed

[oddoneout]

We are contemplating being midly subversive by (trans)planting some miniature daffodils from pots (bought to cheer the house up indoors) under the new trees on the open meadow strip (community land) between the house and the beck. Is that very wicked?
PS: Actually, will they survive, or will they have been so cultivated for indoors that they will not like it outdoors?

In some circles yes it is wicked (alien plant species in the wild) but the average member of the public will not see what the problem is and would be in favour of improving the visual appeal of an area. Are there any other daffs already there? If wild ones have been planted then the insertion of garden varieties might not be viewed kindly, depends on how 'natural' the meadow is intended to be.
As to whether the 'incomers' will survive then if the bulbs in question are the small yellow 'Tete a Tete' variety(sorry can't do the relevant accents) which most are, they will be quite happy outside. Some of the others, such as the scented 'Paperwhite' don't thrive in a garden environment generally.

[Pulcinella]

In some circles yes it is wicked (alien plant species in the wild) but the average member of the public will not see what the problem is and would be in favour of improving the visual appeal of an area. Are there any other daffs already there? If wild ones have been planted then the insertion of garden varieties might not be viewed kindly, depends on how 'natural' the meadow is intended to be.
As to whether the 'incomers' will survive then if the bulbs in question are the small yellow 'Tete a Tete' variety(sorry can't do the relevant accents) which most are, they will be quite happy outside. Some of the others, such as the scented 'Paperwhite' don't thrive in a garden environment generally.

Yes, they are tête à tête (easy to do on my iPad: ), but no other flowers around.
It could never be a wildflower meadow: more of a strip of grass (former field) between the edge of the estate and the beck, much used for exercising dogs; there are two 'balancing' lakes to contain water and attract ducks. We wonder if they (the ducks) come over from the nearby(ish) university lakes for lunch after they have been to morning lectures!
It's residents association meeting tonight, so I might be able to get some advice/ideas there!

[gradus]

Foxgloves spread easily here too and we had a patch ten feet square of seedling plants last Spring.

[oddoneout]

(easy to do on my iPad: )

Pleased to hear it. I don't have 'devices', nor the knowledge of how or whether I can apply accents with my keyboard, hence the apology.

[vinteuil]

Pleased to hear it. I don't have 'devices', nor the knowledge of how or whether I can apply accents with my keyboard, hence the apology.

... my current machine isn't very accent-friendly - if I feel the need for accents in a case like this I would probably google the words in question to find an entry with the words equipped with the right accents, and then copy and paste back in to the text here. So I google tete a tete and find an entry for - tête-à-tête .

Hope this might be a help...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The intermediate sunshine lost to the grey-blue cloud, and it's been hailing again for the past hour!

I'm sure cloughie is right and the daffodils are a gift from the birds (a sort-of "thank you for feeding us over the winter; we've left you these seeds as a present - with some spares on the bonnet of the car you've just washed" type thing) - and, like Wordsworth, I love to see oceans of the things in public places; but my garden is really too small to do them justice, so all that happens is they take up space and jar against the colour scheme. (Same with Bluebells - in spite of hours of digging last Autumn, the leaves are showing just as much as - if not more than - last year!)