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I always found f**king hilarious when anyone says "Owen's hill", it seems that this hill has snow in the winter and is hot in the summer?
It has the world's most fascinating microclimate. I'm not sure what the summers are like, but the place has the planet's highest snowfall levels throughout much of the year, especially in April. It's also the only place in the world where there has been confirmed sightings of Yetis. Owen once caught one on camera when his dad drove him up there.
It has the world's most fascinating microclimate. I'm not sure what the summers are like, but the place has the planet's highest snowfall levels throughout much of the year, especially in April. It's also the only place in the world where there has been confirmed sightings of Yetis.
Ok, definetly nowhere in NI can grow a cherry tree without being in a glasshouse.
I'm pretty sure Cherries do grow in N.I, they grow in Scotland & northern England... They may not fruit as reliably or have as big a crop, but they are hardy trees.
I'm pretty sure Cherries do grow in N.I, they grow in Scotland & northern England... They may not fruit as reliably or have as big a crop, but they are hardy trees.
If they grow in Scotland, they can grow in NI. No doubt about that.
We used to have a fig tree but the winter of 14/15 killed it off. It's been alive since the 80s
My grandfather was originally from Dalmatia, and there they all had a figs.
Here in Serbia figs began to be planed in last 20-30 years, since winters become a little milder. Figs were brought to Serbia by Serbs who were originally from Dalmatia, Montenegro and Herzegovina.
It happens that several winters they survive, but when the winter is a little colder then destroy them.
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In the mountainous zone which I was mentioning before I know where figs grow, as loquats, persimmons, lemons, oranges, tangerines, cherries, olives... About 2 weeks ago I spotted some loquat trees which I used to collect from them when I was a kid and they are still there, they were full of mature fruits, ready to pick up. In the past, in the summer in a small zone I spotted wild blackberries!!
unfortunately those aren't there from many years ago, they were exactly in a zone near a natural water source, which is full of underground water and it makes a very humid micro-microclimate zone, but about 6 years ago that source dried for some months and starting from that year I didn't find more the blackberries, and I've spotted them for 3-4 consecutive years in the same place.
in the valley all of the fruits mentioned above grow in crops, in the last 10 years citrics are becoming more popular at 400-500m altitude zones as the people thought they can't grow there but they grow perfectly too, citrics are in reality more hardier than what they thought. I also spotted some banana trees but like the ones which grow in Vancouver, which give very small fruits not able for consumption.
what I didn't found in that valley are avocados, sweet/common bananas or mangos, fruits which I can find on the coast of Alicante or Valencia, or even a bit inland at 150-200-250m altitude zones near Xativa-Alzira which are at the interior (avocados, I never seen mangos at more than 10km from the coast), but not in Valle de la Gallinera, as it's quite more inland and it goes from 300-350 to 700m of altitude.
Of course after you go above ~600m of altitude you only find cherries and almonds. Although some isolated lemon and orange trees still can be seen, those zones have freezes every year but not hard ones.
Cherries grow in Southern Finland too. No big deal.
Agree, no big deal. Cherries grow in Alberta too.
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