Re: irregular blooming

I went hiking in the santa monica mountains here in Los Angeles this past
weekend and was amazed by the ceanothus blooms.  Entire hillsides looked
white and wooly from afar and at many points along the trail, we were
walking past walls and tunnels formed by white ceanothus blossoms. the
blue ceanothus are about to flower very soon as I noticed a many buds. the
manzanitas are blooming now as well.  I am told that this is extremely
late
(by about 2-3 months) for these plants to be in full bloom.  maybe it was
that blast of rain during the months of january and feb that has the
plants scrambling to bloom all at the same time.

Angela Lee


On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, William A. Grant wrote:

> OK, now I believe the weather has had something to do with the unusual blooming of plants. It has been very cool, even cold, with no frost from December 15 until right now. Roses that bloom early have not opened, even the species. Acacia is just now blooming and it is usually open in late December. Ceanothus is late. Some other plants have very few blooms on them. Salvias went on growing and blooming forever. The oaks are just now leafing and the madrones are going to be late. All of this is relative, I know. But it has to be the strange weather (what other kind do we have?). Bill Grant, central Calif coast
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