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Posted by beachsandra z7 NY (My Page) on Fri, Apr 1, 05 at 11:55
| Someone in the NY Metro forum asked if folks had any signs of spring yet and I thought it would be a good question to ask of my fellow coastal gardeners. As for me, living on the Rockaway peninsula in NYC, it's amazing what a difference a few weeks makes On 3/11, I cut my perennials down to to the ground - echinecea, black-eyed susan, monardia, sedum - and darn near froze doing so. Although I spotted a little green, nothing was really visible and had to stand in snow/ice in spots when clipping!! A week later , the sedum had popped to over 1" and the daffs and tulips were 2-3" high and the daffs show first sign of buds. I think the bleeding heart has just broken ground also. It felt soooo good to get out and 'play' after all the snow/ice this winter. However, things still seem slow - the forsythia does not yet have a tinge of yellow - usually it's in bloom by now. I have my clipping, pruning, and raking list all ready for this weekend, except it's supposed be be terrible rain Saturday. Maybe it is just as well, 'cause experience has taught me that 2 full weekend days of early spring cleanup outside means a very stiff and achin' Monday for this winter couch potato!!! |
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| A bit colder on the RI coast, but the tulip blades have broken through and the rosa rugosa twig tips are all sending out leaf buds. There was still too much snow to clean up the garden before Sunday March 27, but now (thanks to a similar aching back) the beds are clean, composted manure strewn and even a bit of grass seed sprinkled, in anticipation of that Saturday rain. AND the peepers are back! |
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- Posted by KWoods Cold z7 Long Is (My Page) on
Fri, Apr 1, 05 at 14:34
"AND the peepers are back!"
None here yet, they sure are keeping me waiting! There's usually at least one lonely guy by now. My witchhazel (intermedia) has been blooming for the last month, not sure if that counts though. Saw bloodroot, wood poppy in the leaf litter day before yesterday. Wife's daffs (jack snipe?) already blooming, tulips coming along. Lots of little Achillea, Echinops, Phlox, poking their heads up in the perennial beds. Azalea buds getting fat. C'mon spring! |
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- Posted by Donn_ Z 7, seaside,NY (My Page) on
Fri, Apr 1, 05 at 17:03
 Tete-a-Tete Daffodil is my first blooming bulb, but the Vinca has been blooming since February. Lots of bulb foliage. Cool season grasses are starting to fill out and green (and blue) up. |
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Donn..WOW! My daffs are just sticking their little stems out of the earth!
Lynn |
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- Posted by Cady 6b/Sunset34 MA (My Page) on
Tue, Apr 5, 05 at 13:06
| Beautiful pic, Donn. What a cheery clump of daffs. Here in coastal Mass., my barberries are greening up, the peonies, tulips and star-of-Bethlehem are sprouting, and the deciduous ferns have fiddleheads coming up. |
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My dafodils, tulips, alliums, wind flowers are peeking through and my crocus and hellebores are blooming.
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