Seedlings everywhere!
- Subject: Seedlings everywhere!
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:21:32 EDT
Has anybody else had seedlings come up all over the place this year? In the
Cincinnati area, we had a severe drought last summer, then a colder than usual
winter, with one period of about 3 weeks of snow cover. Adequate to above
average rainfall since winter.
I'm seeing seedlings of things that have never reseeded before. Kousa and
American dogwoods, redbuds everywhere (and lots of pods hanging on the trees this
year as well). Echnichea. Liatris (although it generally does this). Cleome
jumping beds--30 yards or more. Eupatorium coelestinum (the so-called annual
ageratum)--yes, this is a vigorous spreader all the time, but it too is jumping
beds. Brunera seedlings for the first time in many years. Columbine 'Nora
Barlow' also for the first time--not jumping beds, but dozens of seedlings just
now emerging.
I've never seen the likes of this before. The dogwoods are especially
surprising to me.
Bill Lee
Z6a outside Cincinnati
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