are poking up through the ground
and a Peony's buds are breaking
and Daylilies are putting up new growth.
This can't be right when snow is a possibility for the coming weekend and lows in the twenties are to follow. This is not a good sign of things to come.
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Lots of buds send leaves up through snow. It's interesting that your daffodil leaves are so much more advanced than mine are. The woody plants budding out, however. That seems scary.
I think your plants will be ok. If it gets real cold again the daffs will just stop growing until it is warmer. The worst that will happen is a few brown tips on the foliage. Last year we had a deep freeze after the blooms began to open most did well with just a few drooping flowerheads. As for the peony that is a very wise, hardy plant. If a few leaves are lost to frost more will occur. Flowering is much later in more reliable conditions.
I was out in the garden taking pictures of the first growth on several plants today. Some Maples and other trees will flower in February.
You are going to have fun watching a whole new climate.
I think with global warming, the whole zone system has to be updated. Either everyone moves up a zone or plants get labeled down a zone.
It's all Al Gore's fault. Had he become president, we wouldn't be having all this global warming extreme weather.
It hit 64 degrees here in Buffalo this week. We have a reputation we're supposed to be living up to!
Welcome to the "I'm worried about prematurely sprouting plants" club. With my garden it's Clematis & a Polemium. I hate this record warmth. It scares the heck out me. I suppose if you're worried enough, when it gets below freezing do like the orange growers do - coat the plants in protective ice. I'm just hoping for a good snow.
Damn the Goracle. He may just have to fork over some of that prize money for new bulbs.
Last year in the Great Easter Freeze of '07' the Daffodil's flowers and foliage were lost and one of the resident gardeners was concerned that this years blooming may be stunted. Many shrubs like Berberis, Chamaecyparis, Rose of Sharon and Japanese Maples were severly damaged or killed.
It has to be taxing on the plants ability to survive long term with these hot and then cold spells at the wrong time of year.
64 degrees in Buffalo. Yikes! That couldn't have been pretty if you have had a lot of snow already. All I saw here was the tail end of about six inches of snow melting and it was mushy.
That is of concern! The peony bud is the one I would worry most about but there is really not much to be done! Two chances, it will live or it will die! The harsh truth of nature.
I lost a Japanese maple in that freeze last year also so I understand your worry. I agree though with Gloria, I think most of them will be alright. I don't think any of our daffodils have started peeking out just yet. Just keep your fingers crossed, there's not much you can do!
We are used to things poking out of the ground early, then sitting still until spring, but after last year, nothing is taken for granted. We lost four cut leaf weeping Japanese maples, an expensive loss. What can we do?
I am not liking this warm weather either. So many plants last year had a rough time surviving such a weather swing. It isn't something I want to deal with yearly. Global warming is a scary factor.
The daffs will be fine.
But I believe that Layanee is right... the peonies are worrisome. This may be deadly. In fact, probably.
Of course, I'm sure Gloria knows more than I do and so I'm probably wrong. But whenever I've seen the peonies peep and then re-freeze (for weeks), I've never seen them again.
I hope I'm wrong.
Damn.
I guess there isn't anything to do but wait and see how it goes. If it was the middle of February I might understand this a bit more. I was under the Hawaiian impression that winter was just really getting started. Glad to hear all the Daffodils should be fine. Knowing how many are said to be up here only a miniscule portion of them are showing.
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