busting out all over
- Subject: busting out all over
- From: S* M* C*
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:34:17 -0500
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- Thread-topic: busting out all over
It's spring all at once here in Illinois! After a mild winter, early
fake spring, late frosts and snows, we're having a record-breaking heat
wave (like you are in many other places as well this year). This time
there are no early-season, mid-season, and late-season daffodils. There
are daffs that open up glorious one morning and are finishing by the
afternoon of the next day ... same for tulips. I only had five minutes
before going to work with an early appointment this morning, but here's
what I found (more or less) in bloom:
Daffs (all three seasons at once), tulips (early pulchellas
in with late Darwins), snowflakes, blanda anemones, anemone
ranunculoides (yellow), myostis forget me nots, brunnera macrophylla
forget me nots, aubrieta, arabis, draba, pulsatilla, pulmonarias,
trillium grandiflorum, dutchman's breeches and hybrid bleeding hearts,
erythronium (trout lily), daphne genkwa, cornell pink and PJM rhodos,
yellow wood poppy, corydalis (a pink one, speciosa?), grape hyacinths,
dutch hyacinths, double almond bush, phlox bifida, thlaspi, rue anemone,
anemone nemerosa, fritillaria, bluebells (mertensia), hepatica, and
zillions of dandelions!
What's blooming in your yard? Better enjoy it while you can ...
Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois
zone 5b
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