Re: What happened to spring?

We had a very warm early spring which turned cold and wet.  My dogwoods (C.
florida) looked terrific, lots of blooms.
I am seriously digging up the big blousy daffodils a little every year and
plant to replace them with Jonquilla types and others with thin foliage so I
won't have this constant mess of leaves laying all over their neighbors into
the middle of July.

Kitty

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From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 4:15 PM
Subject: [CHAT] What happened to spring?


> First we had weeks of cold, dank, cloudy weather but not enough rain.
> Now we are dumped right into beastly hot, humid stuff with still not
> enough rain.
>
> The cold, late spring resulted in the best display of daffodils I can
> remember - a full two months of blooms instead of having them all
> bloom in ten days as they do some years.  However, this sudden
> heat has forced all my peonies out at once, and a brief but intense
> shower yesterday knocked the petals off most of them.  Because
> of the heat, they were floppier, with weaker stems than usual.  My
> favorite 'Gay Paree' was spectacular for two days - had 27 blooms
> open at once - but now it's about gone.
>
> What is blooming spectacularly around here is the Kousa Dogwoods.
> The native Cornus florida didn't do well this spring.  They aren't too
> healthy anyway since the past drought years.  We are just about the
> edge of their hardiness zone.  But the Kousas are blooming as
> heavily as I can ever remember - not just mine, but all around the
> area.  This is also a good year for the native Mountain Laurel - Kalmia
> latifolia.  Around here people neglect it because it grows wild, but in
> my mind it is one of the handsomest plants going.
>
> The vegetable garden is not making me happy this year. Someone
> ate the tops off my peas when they were about 6 inches high.  The
> poor things are trying to branch out and produce, but now that it's
> turned hot they are languishing.  The biggest problem I have in the
> vegetable garden is lack of self-discipline.  I just can't bring myself
> to weed out the bushels of 'Johnny-Jump-Ups'  (Viola tricolor) that
> grow like a weed. I guess, in fact, they actually are a weed -
> or would be to some people.  I have made myself pull out any that
> were exactly where I needed to plant something else, but there are
> still far too many.  I love their cheerful faces, but it does not make
> for a neat and orderly garden.  But then, neat and orderly is not
> exactly my style, anyway.
> Auralie
>
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