• Subject: Re: Re: Spring
• From: C* C* <c*@comcast.net>
• Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:37:59 -0500

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Melody Hobert-Mellecker wrote:

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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