February 21

Posted by sydney on Feb 21st, 2009

yew pollen
Pollen released from the yew tree in Gilbert White’s garden, 2008.

  • 1793: February 21, 1793 – Dug the garden-plot in the orchard, & in the meadow; but the ground was very wet, & heavy.
  • 1792: February 21, 1792 – Yellow wagtail appears.
  • 1791: February 21, 1791 – Chaffinches destroy the buds in the honey-suckles.
  • 1790: February 21, 1790 – Frost, ice, bright, red even, prodigious white dew.
  • 1789: February 21, 1789 – Yesterday I fixed some nuts in the chinks of some gate-posts in a part of my outlet where Nuthatches used to haunt: & to day I found that several of them were drilled, & the kernels gone.
  • 1788: February 28, 1788 – Full moon.  Barom. at Newton 28!  no wind.
  • 1787: February 21, 1787 – Male yew-trees shed clouds of farina.
  • 1783: February 21, 1783 – Ashed the two meadows.

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