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Is that Star magnolia? That is not an evergreen species.
Magnolia kobus, subspecies of the star magnolia.
Come on, evergreen magnolia would never survive our winters here. Even deciduous magnolia might die during our winter.
Southern Central Finland and coastal Central Norway are the highest latitudes where magnolias survive at all on our planet. In Canada the similar latitude is an arctic tundra.
I really like Sweetbay Magnolia. Most around here are evergreen or semi-evergreen. Rarely do you see a leafless one in winter.
In VA Beach and DC they are evergreen and from there on South completely evergreen. Not sure about inland like Raleigh though.
I don't think I've ever seen Sweetbay here, although it's possible I just haven't noticed one. I do like Sweetbay however, especially the southern form. 'Moonglow' is my favorite cultivar, I think it originated in Florida but I'm not sure.
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Not sure why, but that one looks a little rough. The leaves look slightly yellowish. Wonder if that is because you went down to 0F, while here we went down to 8F.
They look very green in the city right now.
That could be a reason, although there's one across the street in a grassier area that's larger, fuller, and darker. There's a street around the corner from the one in the pic that's lined with Southern Magnolias and they always look sparse and beat up, I attributed it to them being street trees, which seem to suffer no matter the species. But now that I think about it, I wonder if they're actually Sweetbay, which doesn't look as full as grandiflora.
I guess you wish you had that beautiful background to beaches in southern France? Seem like you traverse your country regularly.
Then you have places near Marseille have both: crappy beaches and an ugly background. It does get better from Marseille westwards. Nevertheless, beaches on the Atlantic, Channel and North Sea have much finer sand and a much less steep slope than down here.
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France is brilliant, I think they get 36 days of paid annual holiday each year.. in the UK it is just 28 days
Yup, 25 vacation days and 11 national holidays. I had to take Friday off though. I've heard that Holy Friday is off in the UK (as well as in a lot of European countries). Had I worked in the UK, I wouldn't have had to take a day off.
Some interesting clouds from earlier this evening, just after 7pm. The sun was setting behind me and lighting up the base of the cloud, making it look a bit like a wall cloud (though it was just standard cumulus). Today was partly cloudy and 13c.
Looked better in person, my camera phone is a bit crap.
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It does get better from Marseille westwards. Nevertheless, beaches on the Atlantic, Channel and North Sea have much finer sand and a much less steep slope than down here.
