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Calendar 2021

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During 2020 first lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, I started posting photos of my garden on Facebook for my friends. By 2021, I thought that it might be useful to build up a complete year of photos, day by day, as they happen. I started this on Jan 1, 2021. Not all the photos were taken on the day specified, but they were still representative of the garden at that time. So you can see what was flowering when.

It must be pointed out that this is my garden, in Cambridge, in East Anglia in England, and we have our own specific climate (quite dry for England, and we are not close to the coast so don't get maritime weather). Indeed, the hottest day in England, ever, was in Cambridge in July 26 2019 (BBC news story about it). So this calendar may not be applicable elsewhere.

Also one year is different to another. I followed 2021, without knowing if it would be typical or extraordinary. It hasturned out reasonably average, some cold spells, some hot, not particularly dry or wet. New Year's Eve broke records (for warmth) in some parts of the country!

Warning about the graphs. We note max and min temperatures every day. The thermometer is kept out of direct sunlight, in a shed, but there is a corrogated iron roof, and we suspect that the tmperatures get too hot in summer. Plus there may have been transcription errors.

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- January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - Temperatures for year -



January

Temperatures for Jan 2021 February
1. Ice removed from pond
2. Cyclamen
3. Winter wallflower
4. Wild pansy
5. Rhubarb
6. Winter wallflower
7. Silver birch
8. Saxifrage
9. Frost on cobweb
10. Apple tree
11. Crocus leaves
12. Cabbages
13. Wallflowers
14. View of garden
15. Red hot poker
16. Snow round gooseberry bush
17. Buttercup leaves
18. Crocus leaves
19. Rosemary flowering
20. Winter wallflower
21. First crocuses
22. Chitting seed potatoes
23. Snowing!
24. Frost on leaves
25. Snow
26. Crocuses in snow
27. Cabbage
28. Rhubarb
29. Crocuses flowering
30. Wiggly hazel catkins
31. Little irises


February

January Temperatures for Feb 2021 March
1. Crocus
2. Crocuses
3. Little irises
4. Cyclamen
5. Crocuses
6. Saxifrage
7. Crocuses
8. Snow
9. Crocus
10. Crocus
11. Newt
12. Ice taken off pond
13. Hazel catkins
14. Silver birch catkins
15. Crocuses
16. Crocuses
17. Crocuses
18. Little irises
19. Crocuses
20. First daffodils
21. Frog and newt during pond cleaning
22. First violet
23. Crocuses
24. Daffodils
25. Scilla
26. Crocuses
27. Hazel with catkins
28. Daffodil and crocus


March

February Temperatures for Mar 2021 April
1. Springstar
2. Winter wallflower
3. Pale mauve crocuses nearly over
4. Hyacinth
5. Wallflower
6. Hairy Bittercress (a weed)
7. Tulips starting
8. Crocus
9. Daffodils
10. Ladybirds on the hazel
11. Hyacinth
12. Violets
13. Blue Chionodoxa
14. Parsley hardening off, in hail!
15. Tulip
16. Hyanconth
17. Pink Chionodoxa
18. Pear tree blossom bud
19. Honeysuckle leaves
20. Forget-me-nots starting to flower
21. Toadflax
22. Rhubarb
23. Grape hyacinth
24. First lawn cut of the year
25. Dead nettle
26. Soldiers and Sailors
27. Planting potatoes
28. Tulips
29. Scilla
30. Crown Imperialis fritillaria

March 31 - after a couple of days good weather, here is a snapshot of what's flowering. It includes some weeds.



April

March Temperatures for Apr 2021 May
1. Ladybirds on grape hyancinths
2. Hyacinths pushing through buttercup leaves
3. Forget-me-nots starting
4. View of flower garden
5. Fritillaria (Crown Imperialis)
6. Wallflower
7. Daffodils with pale trumpets (and hoverfly)
8. Heartsease, Fritillaria, Springstar
9. Broad beans
10. Pear family tree flowering at different rates
11. Dandelion
12. Grape hyacinth (and ladybird)
13. First pink oxalis
14. Little red tulip
15. First apple blossom (cordon)
16. Tulip
17. Saxifrage
18. Pear tree
19. Ladybirds
20. Blossom on Ballerina apple tree
21. Wallflower
22. Forget-me-not
23. Wisteria
24. Bluebells
25. Tulip
26. Family apple tree
27. Flower border
28. Rock garden
29. Daffodils

April 30 - after a long spell of dry, cold, miserable weather, here is a snapshot of what's flowering.



May

April Temperatures for May 2021 June
1. Ipheion
2. Aubretia
3. Red tulips
4. Marguerite
5. French Marigold
6. Snow-in-summer
7. Wisteria
8. View of flower garden
9. Pink bluebells
10. Flower border
11. Columbine
12. Wisteria
13. Wallflower
14. Vetch
15. Star of Bethlehem
16. Ipheion
17. Little strawberries
18. Snow-in-summer
19. Knapweed
20. Buttercup
21. London Pride
22. Lily of the valley
23. View of flower garden
24. Herb Robert
25. Love-in-a-mist bud
26. Small gladioli
27. Mimulus
28. Oxalis
29. White Campion
30. Corn poppy

May 31 - The month was wet and cool, then a couple of days sunny. Here's what's flowering, including vegetables, but excluding weeds.



June

May Temperatures for June 2021 July
1. View of vegetable garden
2. Red hot poker
3. Love-in-a-mist
4. Knapweed
5. Iceberg rose
6. Chives, with bumble bee
7. Foxglove, with bumble bee
8. Rose - Rosa Mundi
9. Rose - Graham Thomas
10. Honey bee on the thyme
11. Moses in the bullrushes
12. Rose - Old salmon rose
13. Mallow
14. Snapdragon
15. Love-in-a-mist seedpod
16. Climbing rose
17. Clover
18. Rose - Iceberg
19. Foxgloves
20. Clematis
21. Magenta rose
22. Graham Thomas rose
23. Iris
24. Bumble bee on clover
25. Foxgloves and campanula
26. View of vegetable garden
27. Gladioli
28. Stonecrop
29. Old salmon rose

June 30 - this month had some hot weather, then some rain, grey, very cool. Here is what's happening today.

Flowers:

Ripening fruit:

Vegetables grown from seed:


July

June Temperatures for July 2021 August
1. Runner beans
2. First raspberries
3. Foxglove and bee
4. Bee on Campanula
5. Hollyhock
6. Rose - Deep Secret
7. Picked gooseberries
8. Peas
9. Bramley apple
10. Fuchsia
11. Tiger flower
12. Bee reversing from foxglove
13. Hoverfly and Graham Thomas rose
14. Cobweb attached to Echinops
15. Lavendar
16. Honey bee and hoverfly on alium
17. Hollyhock
18. Tiger Iris
19. Echinops
20. Last of the raspberries
21. Feverfew
22. Climbing rose
23. Little campanula
24. Snapdragon
25. Foxglove
26. Deep Secret rose
27. Masquerade rose
28. Bee on allium
29. Moss and plants removed from drainpipe
30. Hollyhocks

July 31 - this month was dull and wet. Here are the flowers out at the moment.



August

July Temperatures for August 2021 September
1. Tiger iris
2. Nasturtiums
3. Dandelion
4. Potato flower
5. Honeysuckle
6. Runner bean
7. Cabbage
8. Bindweed
9. Ornamental sage
10. Pears
11. Gladioli
12. Giant willow herb
13. Tansy
14. Iceberg rose
15. Montbretia
16. Chive flower
17. View of vegetable garden
18. Snapdragon
19. Gladioli
20. Peppers
21. Hazel nut
22. Fuchsia
23. Tomatoes and windfall apples
24. Climbing rose
25. Snapdragon
26. Pear windfalls
27. Graham Thomas rose
28. Final flower of hollyhock
29. Sweet corn (and nasturtiums)
30. Salmon rose

August 31 - we've had a dull, grey, cool month, sometimes wet



September

August Temperatures for September 2021 October
1. Apples
2. Rose - Deep Secret
3. Cabbage (and snail)
4. Rose - Iceberg
5. Campanula
6. Mallow
7. Rose - Masquerade
8. Rose - Salmon
9. Ornamental sage
10. Rose - old pink
11. Beetroot
12. Coryadalis
13. Gladiolus
14. Rose - Graham Thomas
15. Little Campanula
16. Raspberries
17. Michaelmas daisy
18. Sedum
19. Cyclamen
20. Marguerite
21. Snapdragon
22. Oxalis
23. Seed heads
24. Rose - Deep Secret
25. Seed head
26. Borlotti beans
27. Nigella (Love-in-a-mist)
28. Seed pod
29. Sedum

September 30 - September was warm and pleasant weather



October

September Temperatures for October 2021 November
1. Box chicken eaten by box moth caterpillar
2. Fungus
3. Courgette
4. Runner bean
5. Rose - Masquerade
6. Michaelmas daisy
7. Sedum
8. Rose - Graham Thomas
9. Snapdragon
10. Honeysuckle
11. Cabbage
12. Ornamental sage
13. Nigella seed pod
14. Nasturtium
15. Rose - Masquerade
16. Bindweed
17. Cordon apple
18. French marigold
19. Rose - Graham Thomas
20. Ballerina apples
21. Red Campion
22. Love-in-a-mist
23. Corydalis
24. Big Apple - cordon tree
25. The last pear
26. Pink oxalis
27. Michaelmas daisies
28. Climbing rose
29. Silver birch
30. Last pear fallen

October 31 - October was warm



November

October Temperatures for November 2021 December
1. Wisteria
2. Rose - Masquerade
3. The last apple
4. Pear and apple tree
5. Marigold
6. Sedum
7. Bonfire
8. Cyclamen
9. Masquerade rose
10. Rhubarb
11. Marguerite
12. Silver birch
13. Climbing rose
14. View of garden
15. Nasturtiums
16. Sprouts
17. Ornamental sage
18. Beetroot
19. Courgette
20. Autumn colour
21. Spinach
22. Fuchsia
23. Cabbage
24. Dead nettle
25. The last apple
26. The last of the potatoes
27. Chive
28. Oxalis
29. Ice on pond

November 30 - this month was mostly quite warm, but a cold snap at the end.



December

November Temperatures for Dec 2021
1. Silber Birch
2. Ballerina apples
3. Garden view
4. Hazel
5. Box (not quite dead)
6. Cordon apple tree
7. Gooseberry bush
8. Red currant bush
9. Iris
10. Marguerite
11. Foxglove leaves
12. Hollyhock leaves
13. Nigella leaves
14. Wallflower leaves
15. Ornamental sage
16. Knapweed leaves
17. Corydalis
18. Silver Birch and Hazel
19. Pink Oxalis (still trying to flower!)
20. Sweet William leaves
21. Buttercup leaves
22. Snow-in-summer leaves
23. Wallflower
24. Honeysuckle berries
25. Brussel sprouts
26. Forget-me-not leaves
27. Rosemary flowering
28. Cyclamen
29. Hazel catkins
30. Buttercup flowering

December 31 - some cold weather, but ended warm (and wet). Here are some spring bulbs showing leaves ready for next year!



Temperatures for year

Temperatures for 2021

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