Thats good to know!!!! Im only having problems finding fruit.... LOL

Oh, boy! Mountains around my town is a center of apricots and apples natural origin. When they bloom the hills surrounded my house are looking like they are covered with pinkish clouds.

Big apple orchards here too, Igor, all along the valley bottom around Kalamalka Lake and Okanagan Lake.
End-April/early May is so lovely with the apple blossoms.

Some time around the late 1960's people say a very severe cold split the trunks vertically of many apricot and peach trees in large orchards.
Those large orchards have mostly replanted to grapes for the wine industry which is now very successful here, bringing in lots of tourists.

Barb

Paul,

the other night had crazy temps down here too. Some areas were 'warm' other areas were 'real cold' not sure why so much change over a short distance. Here's some of the local stations:

Jan 15th

Willimantic, CT -9F
Hartford, CT -6F
Norwood, MA -3F
Taunton, MA -1F
Westerly, RI -1F
Providence, RI +5F
Worcester, MA +7F
Boston, MA +15F
Nantucket, MA +19F

I spoke too soon the other day about our mild winter 👿
Last night the temp at my house was -15.3 C, and the night before was -12.7 C, for a total of somewhere around 60 hours below freezing.
Now, the temp is supposed to go up to 7 C at night, and fall during the day?!

Welcome to canada cameran 😀

Big apple orchards here too, Igor, all along the valley bottom around Kalamalka Lake and Okanagan Lake.
End-April/early May is so lovely with the apple blossoms. Barb

Barb, I mean wild growing apple-apricot forests in the Northern TienShan but not the orchards themselves that by the way are quite famous here as well. The Kazakh (i.e. Turkish) name "Almaty" means "the apple place" 😯

Jesse- Your weather sticker is now showing -19f... Yikes! I looked up the historical weather for T-Bay, and I think that temps of -40C for you are a little less common than -30C temps for me. I think we both need to move south.

Tim- What was your low to date?

Nantucket is warm... Does it ever drop below 0f there?

That weather sticker sucks.... "greengate circle", is another 4 miles more inland then the airport ( which read -27C this morning) But my thromometer said -24.4C. Id rather trust my own readings then from somewhere that is known to be colder then my area ( even if u give or take a few degrees, -26 and -23 is a far cry from -31C ( which is what -19F is???)

On a side note.... i know my area is a gurenteed zone 4 ( mabey 5). I finally Id a yellow flowering shrub down the street, as forsythia, which is hardy to zone 4 or 5 depending on source....

I finally Id a yellow flowering shrub down the street, as forsythia, which is hardy to zone 4 or 5 depending on source....

Depending on variety... I know the one selected in Alberta. Forsythia 'Northern Sun is cold hardy to zone 4.

Ahh ya.... i seen that one trying to find the harniness.....

I said zone 4 or 5, becasue im finding ratings for zone 4 5 and 6 ( depending of variety and internet source). But the lowest ive found is zone 4, which is why i said its a good indicator for my zone here ( shes literaly down the street).

When it starts blooming there? Ours usually bloom from the end of the March until the middle of the April.

Hmmmmmm, i hacnt really payed attention..... If i had to guess id say april or may........ I think it was april last year, becasue it was flowering when the bleeding hearts were growin well.........

Oh, yeah, the last year spring was awesome in Ontario!

Ive never had a spring and summer like last year (that i can remember). Super dry, and warm. The lake was down almsot 20 feet before we got some good rain.

We had a day of 20C in march....... LOL