Re: spring blooms

Yeah ! give the old bat what for, we have had some beautiful weather here in zone 7 (NE MS.)
This has been one year that I have enjoyed my Royal Star Magnolia and Tulip Magnolia without an artic blast destroying it. I have been doing too much bragging. I'll learn to keep my mouth shut and just enjoy ! ! !
You are not gonna believe this, but my one hollyhawk is about 8" maybe 10" high and lively. I'm still afraid to look at it too long. It has been in the 60's and hi 70's here for a few weeks. I've enjoyed the daffodils and forsythia in bloom. they have come and gone and were beautiful.
I have so many other things that are in bud, and wouldn't you just know it. the weatherman is predicting low 30's tonight and maybe a freeze tomorrow night. (probable frost)
I have a bleeding heart that is in full bloom and just breath taking. I have a white one that just put up a bloom stalk and had maybe 3 or 4 blooms on it and I think my dog lay on it. He sure better not let me catch him in my flowers. I already have a gravesite picked out for him.
I even noticed yesterday , some of my iris are in bud. I guess I'll be busy tomorrow evening trying to cover a lot of plants. I couldn't sleep if I didn't do something to protect them.
To miss out on some of the blooms would be just too, too much
I was at the local nursury just last Thursday and pick up something new, or I should say, new for me. "rehmannia elata" common name (chinese foxglove) does anyone have this plant and if so, tell me something about it.
Also, another new one for me, Mexican Petunia . that's all it has on the tag, and I haven't been able to find any information about either, so far. would welcome you thoughts and input.
Donna in NE Mississippi zone 7

Marge Talt wrote:

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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