Re: Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Spring
  • From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:24:57 +0000 (UTC)
It will come. Although we have had some occasional night time freezing
weather, daffodils, blood root, grape hyacinths, Japanese magnolias are
blooming. Willows have their green and redbud is beginning to color. I
think we all have spring fever.


----- Original Message -----

From: "Melody Hobert-Mellecker" <mhobertmellecker@gmail.com> 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:58:45 PM 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Spring 

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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