I sit here in a fog bank accepting rain off and on all morning. My bulbs are in full bloom in the front of the house and the forsythia (I have a late blooming variety) is already a gorgeous, blazing yellow. In fact, some of my daffs and tulips are already curled up and brown because of the heat.
It’s been 80 degrees all week — most unusual for the middle of March. Yesterday I saw that they had erected the temporary greenhouses in the parking lot of Shopko. Are they going to fill them with plants? Now? And what are we going to do with those plants?
I don’t remember much, but I remember a snow storm the week after Easter that froze my little bulbs and killed them dead for the year. And another year, (about 1989 or 1990) I remember a wild snow storm on May 5 that broke all the blooming trees, including one of mine.
Ellendra said it best a couple of weeks ago. It is wise to remember that we probably have 2 snowstorms and a deep freeze to go yet this spring.
On the few remaing farms around here, I’m seeing green fields of winter wheat already up an inch. Of course, winter wheat will withstand any change in the weather.
There was a big storm up in here in Northern MI in May 1990.
It was May 10th and we had 10”. Remember it well as we were trying to get to the hospital to see new Granddaughter born that day! Will never forget because of date, amount and circumstances.
This year all are concerned about the cherry crop up here. No final word if the buds survived the freeze a couple nights in a row. That would be the trees that survived the big snow a couple weeks ago. Many broken and down.
The joys of Northern Michigan!