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What's Breaking Dormancy in your yard?

gardenerme
15 years ago

Lots of my perennials and trees are breaking dormancy:

Flowering Quince - Flower Buds about to open!

Park's Whopper Tomato - 2 flowers!

Prunus Pendula - 1st blooms 2/7

Dw.Gingko - Budded up leaves beg 2/7

Catawba Crepe Myrtle - tiny (8" tall) leaf buds 2/22

Dw Betula - leaf buds 2/22

PG Hydrangea - first leaf buds 2/20

Acer Palmatum Shin de shojo - leaf buds 2/18

Viridis - 2/23

Mikawa

Emperor 1

Sharp's Pygmy - 2/24

Burgundy Lace

Bearss Lime - leaf buds 1/20

Tangerine - leaf buds 2/25

Valencia Orange - leaf buds 2/11

Meyer Impr Lemon - has ripe fruit

ripening fruit

new blooms mid Jan

Br Turkey Fig - a leaf bud on 2/18

All but the tomato are in containers. Every year I know it's coming and every year it is a brand new thrill! Don't you just love growing things?

Comments (17)

  • queerbychoice
    15 years ago

    At the moment? Nothing at all. Not a bud to be seen anywhere. But I'm expecting my Western redbud to start budding soon, and California golden poppies, and hopefully coral bells. I don't think I'll get any more than that until April.

  • Babka NorCal 9b
    15 years ago

    Purple leaf plums are full of blooms, and hostas are beginning to poke up their noses. Northern California, near San Jose.

    -Babka

  • keeversgirl
    15 years ago

    Dormancy?? What's that? LOL I swear, the only things we've had go dormant or die is a few deciduous trees, and my summer garden crop. Other then that, everything is still FINE! Weird stuff I tell ya...

  • queerbychoice
    15 years ago

    I finally have flowers! And they're not on any of the plants I expected them on. My golden currant (Ribes aureum) is covered with tiny yellow flowers.

  • gobluedjm 9/18 CA
    15 years ago

    My plum tree is just starting to flower and lots of perennials are budding out.
    Even my new concha and joyce coulter ceanothus put in last fall are budding.

  • calpat
    15 years ago

    Daffodils are blooming and the Forsytheia is a mass of bright yellow blooming branches.

  • skrip
    15 years ago

    Got some closeups of some blooms yesterday. Rather than link each one you guys can check'em out:

    Around the Garden

  • CA Kate z9
    15 years ago

    Everything!

  • barbiekemp
    15 years ago

    I have a few deciduous redwoods calla lillies, and a peach tree that are coming back to life. Most of the rest of my stuff is still going all year.

    Oh, yeah! Cymbidiums are lushly in bloom in the backyard planter.

  • bagarden
    15 years ago

    I have apricot tree, flowering quince and most spring bulbs! Below are pictures how this spring is progressing.

    http://picasaweb.google.com/hui.jacobson/Spring09#

    Hui

  • queerbychoice
    15 years ago

    Spring is finally reaching me! New leaves on my redbud, milkweed, grapevine, and California fuchsia. Flowers on one currant, flower buds on the other currant. Flower buds on my coral bells. One small green flower bud on a California golden poppy.

  • tammysf
    14 years ago

    Daffodils blooming
    Lancetilla mango has new growth and flower buds
    Carrie mango has a bunch of new growth
    Glenn mango has new growth
    Cherimoya dropped all its leaves (normal I heard)
    Peach tree has a bunch of little fruit
    Strawberries are blooming with a handful of berries
    Meyer lemon has new growth and blossom buds
    Roses are pushing out new growth
    Maple bonsais all have lush new leaves

    I'm in bay area/marin

  • carolsun
    14 years ago

    As of April 2
    lilacs
    tulips finishing up
    lunaria
    viburnum juddii just starting
    erysimums continuing
    strawberries
    bolting choy
    all rose bushes in bud
    still waiting for sweetpeas, irises, etc.

  • mlevie
    14 years ago

    As of today (4/2):

    cotinus coggyria "Atropurpurea" leafed out at least a month ago
    fruiting plum tree just beginning to flower
    birch "Royal Frost" leafing out
    cornus nuttallii totally leafed out
    rhododendron occidentale buds finally breaking, should be in leaf in a couple days

    still waiting for the Japanese maple, nootka rose and birchbark cherry!

  • Christine Decker
    14 years ago

    ditto~ Everthing!
    crepe myrtle
    daffodils
    roses,
    fruit trees,
    bearded iris's
    sea pinks
    tulips
    geraniums
    petunias
    strawberries
    5'o clocks
    trumpet vine
    flowering plum tree
    magnolias have buds

    waiting on sweet peas, ranunculus, marigolds (from seed)
    cosmos, poppies, too many to list are still seedlings

  • PRO
    Kahnke Brothers Tree Farm
    12 years ago

    My crocuses started blooming on April 3rd. With the year we have had here in south western Minnesota, they are wonderful to see. Also, we had so much snow cover that I have one entire garden where none of my plants went completely dormant. After the snow melted, I was just surprised! I have shasta daisies, yarrow, lobelia, and more and they are all as green as they could be!

  • jenn
    12 years ago

    Few of our plants go completely dormant but those that do are leafing out, most starting last month (March 2011):

    - Crepe Myrtle 'Zuni' - the new leaves open in fall colors and turn green as they age -- beautiful!
    - Chiltalpa tashkinensis - started early April
    - Salvia regla - looks like a giant tumbleweed in winter, just starting to leaf out now
    - Hydrangea microphylla - my precious Hydrangea, a gift from work after my dad's passing in 2008.
    - Asiatic lily - another special gift, this one from our neighbor.
    - Manzanita 'Dr. Hurd'