Re: What happened to spring?

since I only have common daffs, about now, I have had
it with the leaves looking ratty.... probably this
weekend they will all get a hair cut. Been doing that
for years and so far they have come back. I am not
recommending folks with rare or specialty ones do
that.

Donna

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> 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
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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