Re: spring blooms
- Subject: Re: spring blooms
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:39:16 -0500
Yup.....old Ma Nature at it again...after a month or so under heavy
snow cover (very unusual here); a late start when it finally melted,
2 weeks of warm weather has everything bursting just in time for that
nice late freeze...Whoopee! Knew she'd do that, the old witch!
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Susan M Campanini <campanin@ad.uiuc.edu>
>
> Crocus, species (including tommies) and Darwins, are in bloom,
along
> with tiny reticulata iris, chionodoxa, scilla, and tete-a-tete
> mini-daffs. Snowdrops are finishing and so are the few winter
aconite
> that came through from last year's hot and dry summer. Nonbulbs:
many
> lovely yellow blooms on the adonis in the scree bed and bloodroot
in the
> fern bed, along with corydalis speciosa. Buds on shrubs greening up
and
> swelling like crazy. Magnolias starting to show color all over
town. But
> now it's cooling down again and they are saying low twenties by
Sunday
> night. Gardening 03 ... whoopee! Here we go ...
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois
>
> zone 5b
>
>
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