blooms
- To: "'perennials'" <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: blooms
- From: S* C* <c*@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:17:32 -0600
What a strangely mild winter we've been having in zone 5b!
Usually, February is the cruelest month for gardeners here--long
and drawn out with dark overcast skies, sporadic freezing and thawing,
sometimes snow, sometimes rain, sometimes freezing rain--you get the
idea...
But this year is definitely different. I was in the garden
yesterday with the six felines taking stock of the situation and was
astounded to find BUDS all over on the Daphne 'Somerset' and the early
white Thlaspi in the raised beds was in BLOOM! Also, the lewisia that
we planted--in the "open garden" as the Brits say--just before the
muggiest part of July and propped up with lots of rocks and gravel to
keep it well drained is still doing fine! Many perennials are green and
perky. The Buddleias that usually die back to the ground are only a
little wilted looking (we have had frosts, of course, and a few nights
in the teens Fahrenheit without snow cover several weeks back).
Anybody else in the so-called temperature zone finding unusual
plant appearances?
Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F×
e-mail: campanin@uiuc.edu
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