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NewHendoLib

(60,015 posts)
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 09:31 AM Mar 2023

We are a month ahead with respect to what's blooming - this is crazy!

We have a saucer magnolia that is just about fully open - our redbud has distinctly coloring buds. Forsythia is blooming. All of our daffodils are fully open. Lilacs will be open very soon. Yesterday we took a hike at the WNC arboretum - there is dogtooth violet foliage, and the Oconee Bells are blooming. This is our 4th year here - typically all of the above is happening at the very end of March. Long term forecast indicates possibility of mid 20s for several nights in mid March, which will freeze and brown most of those things in bloom.

The earth is speaking to us - it is NOT happy.

If anyone wants to see some of the pics of what we have going on, I am on Instagram - @nctomatoman

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We are a month ahead with respect to what's blooming - this is crazy! (Original Post) NewHendoLib Mar 2023 OP
My tulip leaves came up and then it snowed. I am guessing there won't Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #1
with tulips, the leaves precede the bud, which emerges later from the center NewHendoLib Mar 2023 #2
I'm in NY. They usually work great here. I defer to your horticultural Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #3
Awww NewHendoLib Mar 2023 #4
Nuthin' here. Ocelot II Mar 2023 #5

NewHendoLib

(60,015 posts)
2. with tulips, the leaves precede the bud, which emerges later from the center
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 09:53 AM
Mar 2023

you may be OK. we have issues using tulips as a perennial here - daffodils spread/naturalize well, but tulips seem to need to be dug and replanted, or replaced. We had best luck with tulips when we lived further north (PA or new england)

Scrivener7

(50,955 posts)
3. I'm in NY. They usually work great here. I defer to your horticultural
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 10:24 AM
Mar 2023

expertise and am hopeful again!

Ocelot II

(115,735 posts)
5. Nuthin' here.
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 12:20 PM
Mar 2023

Or if there is anything it's buried under a foot or two of snow. I don't expect an early spring in these parts.

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