They open for business when conditions are good for the bugs to be out.
Conditions must be good because the inside of the house is crawling with Lady and Stink bugs. Damn bugs. I live in a multi-purpose den.
This year the Witch Hazels are all blooming together. They opened in the same succession as usual, 'Jelena', 'Diane', 'Arnold', but a couple weeks earlier and reaching peak bloom sooner than in colder winters.
Close enough to the usual time for normal at least.
At this point they have had a solid month of bloom time and that is pretty remarkable for a winter garden.
But it ends rather quickly when they decide they are finished. The petals all drop in two or three days. There is just no way of telling when that will be. Today, on a warm February day, they are all in full color bloom.
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Witch hazels have been a big disappointment to me. I should qualify that the native one doesn't disappoint. It blooms early every year but it looks beautiful. I have Jalena and Diane and they don't do very well. They are mature enough they should be blooming beautifully especially this year when it has been so mild.
Well that sucks Lisa. Have you done any research on how to encourage bloom? I don't know what to tell you.
I have read from horticulturists that they really like more sun to bloom than you think. I was going to say, all the ones down here on the coastal plain of MD are in bloom early also.
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