Can anyone who lives in Belgium or around tell me if foliage is green or greening up around mid April.
Are trees and shrubs budding or are things still bland from the winter?
- John

Hi John,

you are aware that such a question is difficult to answer, aren't you!

With a harsh and (above all) long winter, you would not see much green in mid-April.

The contrary could produce burgeoning leaves or even more as early as Easter.

Why do you ask? Belgium in mid-April..could only be 1945...or do you look at WW1 landscapes??

Cheers

Romain

Yes , this is Belgium calling.....

Hello John ,

it could be freezing cold and snowing in mid-April and a week later the weather can be nice with temperatures around 20 degrees celsius. We call this time of year capricious April.

So to answer your question the foliage is greening up and trees and shrubs are budding , because it is early spring.


Kurt

Romain - your on it, Spring 1945!
Feeling out for a diorama idea I've had and looking to get some greenery in it. Sounds like the same setup here in the U.S long winter late start (like this year) Sometimes its hard to tell from all the black and white pictures.
Last year I was mowing the first week of April.
So I know it was a bad winter in 1944-45 was there any green mid-late April?
- John

Hi John

I would say that you are very much on the safe side to put in some green in your scene, at least nobody can tell you anything different.
As some of our neighbor's, there is a tradition in Luxembourg to bind a wreath with green foliage(I looked that word up), a "Maikranz" on May 1st. I remember only one single time during my lifetime (at least the time I payed attention to things like that) that people had problems finding enough green foliage to make the wreath.

Stay with smaller trees or Hazelnut and sloe (Prunus spinosa) hedges for example and you are good to go.

Claude