I don't get your joke *feels ashamed*

It was a reference to global warming...

"Deletes joke" 

I have just seen a most gorgeous magnolia.

I have noticed we have more blossom, my cherry tree has triple the ammount this year than it had last year....

It means we will have snow in June....

You could be right

Yes, we are having lots of blossom, I think it's because of the long winter leading to a late spring, which has given the trees a longer time than in recent years to hibernate and so are stronger.

I don't think we'll have snow in June, but around 15 years ago I was working in Cheltenham in June when there was a terrific hail storm, and the gardens near the town hall were completely white. But being June, the ice had melted within half an hour.

And also bigger bumble bees - the one I removed from my kitchen today was humungous

The swallows have arrived!

i went to the cotswolds today-bloody lovely-loads of that blossom stuff and nice trees etc..
im not very poetic when it comes to explainations of springtime am i?
but it looked nice anyway
oh yeah and we saw a red kite bird/hawk or something like that-so the in-laws said..they said they were a rare thing to see
mind you the ma-in-law had a few at this point

They've been quite commonplace in Bucks ... and we now see them regularly in Oxfordshire. Won't be long before they spread up the road to your in-laws and you see them every time you visit

rexi
ive gotta be honest-i wouldnt know one if it bit me on my nose!
i mean the red kite-not my mother in law

They're pretty big pirate ... you wouldn't want one of them round your nose ... or anywhere else

youve met my mother in law then?

My wysteria has not even started to bloom yet It's got loads of buds but no bloomage. Not happy. Wouldn't surprise me if the neighbour 2 doors down has sabotaged it cos she was jealous of it. If I find out this is the case her perfect friggin Japanese tree thingy is gonna lose some limbs

we had a really mad hailstorm here (essex) about 15 or so years ago... they hailstones were huge... some the size of golf balls.   My Dad & loads of the neighbours had to fight the insurance companies to pay out on getting the bodywork of the cars sorted out from the dents the hail had made!

Hi Carport!
Whenever I read that word in your thread title I always think of that famous song from Mel Brooks' 'The Producers'. Before anyone gets offended, the context is all. I'll post a link hoping most Gagas have roughly the same sense of humour as me... 

My morello cherry tree is in full blossom now, and buzzing with hoverflies and bumble bees. But it (and all the other flowering trees in my neighbourhood) were a bit late to bloom this year, because winter was so unusually cold and long.

 That's more or less what they said on Radio4 this morning, and that the winter had been particularly wet.
Loving all of the magnolia that is out now, doesn't last long, but it is sooooo beautiful