Mid-Atlantic Gardening: DO YOU HAVE SOME SIGNS OF SPRING 2013? #2, 1 by JBerger

JBerger wrote:
This weather is so strange. Yesterday it was in the 70s, the rains came and this morning I had to put the heat on since the house temp dropped quickly overnight and the birds could get a chill, which I do not like that to happen.
The star magnolia is still blooming but the rain has almost ruined the blooms. The pink weeping cherry is turning pink and so is the pink dogwood. Very slowly. The daffodil field is almost all wilted. Hundreds of beautiful daffodils completely ruined by the intense heat, cold and now heavy rains. Not a good year for selling them either. The winds have been damaging also. They have no real cover in the field and they just take a beating. I put this picture up on FB yesterday to show how many are in full bloom.

The hyacinths are all drying up also...they usually bloom for weeks but the wind and rain has knocked them down and they are just wilting. The grape hyacinths are just coming in full and this is a spot of them outside my greenhouse under the lilacs.

I noticed the peonies and the peony trees are really growing now, they have weeks to go before they are to bloom. That is a quick review of here on the farm. The Iris of course are looking healthy and good and the other day I put some mix and red day lilies in a corner of the back yard where I am hoping to attract some hummers. They were brecks carpet border lilies.

Back to work. Have a wonderful weekend and stay safe. JB