Re: Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Spring
  • From: M* H* <m*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:58:45 -0500
Not much happening here in Iowa...Auralie is right, it has been a long,
long winter. We are finally rid of the snow cover and had a generous amount
of much needed rain yesterday.  Its supposed to get into the 60's this
weekend so I am hoping for some sunshine and time in the gardens.  There is
so much to be done with clean-up...seems like I didn't get much done this
past fall...too cold too early!


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:44 PM, <aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:

>   All of you guys are making me really jealous.  Although the temperature
> is
> above
> freezing today - 42 degrees and raining - we still have piles of snow.
>  Most
> of the
> yard is clear, but the ground is still frozen, and the fenced vegetable
> garden
> is still
> totally snow-covered.
>   I do have a clump of snowdrops blooming at the foot of the big boulder
> beside the
> driveway.  One clump of Hellebore that has lost its snow cover is showing
> buds
> up
> about 2 inches.  The others have not yet emerged.  Some early daffodils - I
> think
> I planted 'February Gold' there - are up a few inches, but most have not
> come
> up yet.
>   There is much that needs to be done.  I didn't get much fall clean-up
> done
> last
> year, thanks in part to weather and in part to my struggle with returning
> Lyme
> disease.
> I have not even been able to get down to the vegetable garden so far this
> spring -
> the steep sloping yard was so icy I didn't dare even try - my 85-year-old
> bones are
> too fragile to risk it.  I'm hoping next week will bring some nice weather,
> though the
> forecasts so far are for rain.  It's been a long, long winter, and I'm more
> than ready
> for a change.
> Auralie
>
>
> Spring is here north of Atlanta, even though we went down to 26 yesterday
> morning. My serviceberry is about halfway finished, the daffs are done
> except for 2 late bloomers. Grape and wood Hyacinths are in full bloom, the
> neighbor's Bradford pears are almost finished with their stinkiness, Hostas
> have their noses in the air and most of my daylilies and Iris are 8" tall
> or
> so.  Miraculously, the cold yesterday didn't turn the neighbor's Japanese
> Magnolia to brown Kleenex nor does it seem to have hurt the cherry trees.
> I don't know how well some of my blueberries will fare. Some of them were
> in
> full bloom and they looked pretty sad yesterday.
>
> daryl
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl <dp2413@comcast.net>
> To: gardenchat <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 7:50 am
> Subject: [CHAT] Re: Spring was Request
>
>
> Spring is here north of Atlanta, even though we went down to 26 yesterday
> morning. My serviceberry is about halfway finished, the daffs are done
> except for 2 late bloomers. Grape and wood Hyacinths are in full bloom, the
> neighbor's Bradford pears are almost finished with their stinkiness, Hostas
> have their noses in the air and most of my daylilies and Iris are 8" tall
> or
> so.  Miraculously, the cold yesterday didn't turn the neighbor's Japanese
> Magnolia to brown Kleenex nor does it seem to have hurt the cherry trees.
> I don't know how well some of my blueberries will fare. Some of them were
> in
> full bloom and they looked pretty sad yesterday.
>
> daryl
>
>
>
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