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I hope you can see how yesterday’s heat – 88 degrees – is making the forsythia bloom as it never has before. We also have a lot of wind which is drying, but blossoms keep coming.
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All of a sudden the wild cherry trees in the chicken yard have burst into bloom.
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Last year we gambled on this weeping cherry, bought at Home Depot where I do not buy many plants, and it came through the winter and just started to bloom.
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More and more daffodils are coming into bloom. These are planted under the Miss Willmott white lilac. Her buds are amazingly big for this time of year.
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While I was pruning deadwood out of the blueberries yesterday I saw that this primrose, bought years ago at the supermarket, is still thriving – and in bloom. The sunny shades of daffodils and primroses are so heartening in the spring.
Violets, blue and white, have joined the dandelions in my flowery mead – I mean the lawn – and there is more green on every tree and shrub. No more flannel sheets!
You are now having the weather we had earlier. It does make things bloom proficiently. I love primroses. They don’t do too good here.
You mentioned your pagoda dogwood on my blog. I bet it comes out of it. They are hardy dogwoods. The one pictured on my blog is a sucker from the original tree that got some kind of ick and died. The stub keeps sending up suckers.
Lisa – Thanks for the encouragement regarding my pagoda dogwood. I do have Deer Off at the ready.