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"Ash before Oak, we’re in for a soak Oak before Ash, we’re in for a splash."

 

This saying suggests if the leaves on the ash tree appear first, it will be a wet summer. If the oak comes first, a dry summer.

 

Does anyone know of any other old tree related proverbs or folklore? Here are a few I could think of (although not especially tree related)

 

·When dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass.

·When the chairs squeak, it's of rain they speak.

·Swallows fly high when winds are light. So when they start flying low, the storm's a-coming!

·Rain before seven, fine for eleven.

·If the first week in August is unusually warm, the coming winter will be snowy and long.

·If the day starts cloudy, once there is a patch of clear blue sky big enough to make a sailor a pair of trousers, the weather will improve.

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Found this, full version of ash and oak i think...

 

If the Oak is out before the Ash,

T'will be a summer of wet and splash;

But if the Ash is out before the Oak,

T'will be a summer of fire and smoke.

 

When the Hawthorne bloom too early shows,

We shall have still many snows.

 

When the Oak puts on his goslings gray,

'Tis time to sow barley, night or day.

 

When Elm leaves are big as a shilling,

Plant kidney beans if you are willing;

When Elm leaves are as big as a penny,

You must plant kidney beans if you wish to have any.

Posted

Well done Buck! Good-find...I love all these old proverbs. My Grand-ma used to know them all - just wish I asked her to write them down before she passed-on. Bugger!

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Hooray, horray, the first of may, outdoor shagging starts today!

 

Not sure that one would have been in Granny Hancock's collection!

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Not sure that one would have been in Granny Hancock's collection!

 

Peter, you give me the most smiles per mile by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:001_smile:

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It is a little wet around my neck of the woods and there is a large hill (200 feet of being a mountain) its called Pendle Hill, we have a saying that goes,

 

"If you can see Pendle its going to rain, if you can't see Pendle its already raining"

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