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Re: [GWL]: My Zone 5A Garden Still In Bloom!

Yes, Sheri same situation here in zone 6.  It's been very dry up til this week and quite warm.  We live near a pond that each summer is covered with a thin but unsightly coat of algae.  It usually dies off after the first hard frost...of which we've had several and even some skim ice.  But last week the algae began to regrow and there are islands of it floating about the pond.  The moles are having a field day since the grubs haven't gone too deep into the soil and the worms remain very active.  The double blooming iris are lush and green.  I freaked out when the garden designer I work with insisted on transplanting more than 100 peonies in mid-November.  I would have rather waited a year and done in next September, but he's into giving the client immediate gratification as opposed to quality work that will last.  But with this weather I have little fear that they are setting plenty of roots and will probably still flower next spring though thinly.  Columbines and Nepeta have nice large crowns of foliage as do most of the primrose.  Talking with our arborist though we do have fears that this weather is leaving many of our ornamentals very 'soft' this late in the season and a sudden deep freeze may result in lasting damage that will show up next year.

BUT, there isn't a thing we can do about it...it's happened before and it will happen again.  So all we do is watch, wait and garden several weeks longer that we have in other years.

Oh, it also gave me enough fodder for about eighty percent of this weeks column...so if nothing else there will be a historical, if not hysterical record.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener 
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