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michaelg z6B NC Mts (
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Thu, Jan 26, 12 at 9:41
| Early daffodils are up with some showing buds (should be March 7th). Cress, a cool-weather weed here, is blooming and setting its nasty spitting seeds.
These things have never happened in 45 years here, if ever. |
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- Posted by hoovb z9 Southern CA (My Page) on
Thu, Jan 26, 12 at 11:12
| We have had: an inch of rain followed by weeks of warm sunny weather, then an inch of rain followed by weeks of warm sunny weather. The plants are going crazy. I pruned roses and two weeks later they are most of the way leafed out. Some dormant daylilys are sending up flower scapes even though the leaves are still dormant, tomato plants sprouting already, and I have leafless hydrangeas blooming! Odd year indeed. |
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- Posted by TNY78 6b-E TN (My Page) on
Thu, Jan 26, 12 at 12:24
| I'm having the same problem over here Michael. My roses all have new growth, my bulbs are coming up...I'm so afriad of what will happen if winter does finally decide to set in... ~Tammy |
RE: Roses growing out in January ):
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| probably nothing much, Tammy, at least not to our bulbs or roses. My bulbs always come up early because I have a tiny walled garden and my roses often rush into new growth, only to get a nasty shock when we get a horrid Easter - an all too frequent occurence here in eastern England. A bit of sulking but nothing terminal. OTOH, it may well be curtains for agaves or geranium maderense..... |
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| Same here. Roses showing new growth at the tips of the canes while the better part of the canes are still purple/brown. Daffodils are ready to bloom. Tulips are starting to push. Looked at the long range forecast last evening and the temps for February are SUPPOSSED to be 50's during the days, 30's during the evenings. I'm not going to feed or prune any of my roses until mid March. Hoping any new growth stays on the tips of the bushs and is just a little cluster of leafs that don't do anything. With the overnight temps in the 30's lower 40's, maybe they will stay asleep for a little longer. I sure hope so. |
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- Posted by saldut 9-10 st pete, fl (My Page) on
Thu, Jan 26, 12 at 13:51
| My roses are blooming their heads off ! usually this time of year we are 10-15 degrees colder and do the pruning, transplanting etc. but it's much too warm... this is bad news, if it's like this now, I dread what July-August has in store for us... sally |
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- Posted by seil z6 MI (My Page) on
Thu, Jan 26, 12 at 14:04
| I have all kinds of things poking up already too. The ground out there has never really frozen this year except of an inch or so at the very top on the days that were the coldest and thaws again when the temps go back to the 40s (and even a couple of days in the 50s!). Several of my roses have some new growth showing on them already as well. It's making me very nervous because repeated freezes and thaws are a real rose killer for me. I don't suppose there is much I can do about it except pray that it either stays warm or decides to get cold and stay cold until spring. |
RE: Roses growing out in January ):
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| My tree roses are all leafed out!!! And they are in the garage for zone 5 protection. I know if I drag them back outside we will get the winter from H#ll....at Easter! |
RE: Roses growing out in January ):
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| Yes, this is a strange weather year. This winter has been the coldest winter I have experienced since I moved to the mountains. I don't know if anything is sticking up because everything is covered with snow. At my elevation, the snow usually lasts for only a day. We are going into week number two since the last snow storm. For once, nothing is leafing out in January, but that is the exception. We usually get a week or more of warmer temps at the end of January and everything starts to leaf out. Now, I just ignore it because I know that winter is not over. Everything that leafs out in January is usually destroyed by cold in February and March. I haven't a clue as to what will happen this year. Warmer temps are forecasted for the next several days, but I plan to keep on working on the winter projects I planned and to ignore the garden. It's been too cold to work on them until now. Smiles,
Lyn |
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- Posted by beth NorCA 9 (My Page) on
Fri, Jan 27, 12 at 22:55
| I think our seasons are shifting. I've noticed the last few yrs winter comes later and later, and lasts longer into normal "spring" time. Then with all the tsunamis and volcano eruptions, and other natural disaster/phenomenons, the last couple yrs; and the earth's axis shifting significantly last yr. I think that has something to do with our global season-shifting. I'm beginning to wonder if we will even get a "true" winter this yr. I still have roses blooming and actively growing. I just wish there were more daylight hours now so I can get the cleanup and deadheading done from last season! |
RE: Roses growing out in January ):
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| Yep, as harsh as last winter was, dumping snow on us in April, it is being matched by a milder-than-I-can remember winter this year. I don't know that the roses ever fully went to sleep, as some on the south side are putting out new growth already. Daffodils are also a good 6 weeks early, up and growing already. And the first few tulips are sending up stalks and scrolled leaves from the ground. |
RE: Roses growing out in January ):
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| Wow, the reports from the Midwest are even more bizarre than my own. You all can expect what we get nearly every year here in southern Appalachia--late freezes killing back soft growth, excessive sap loss in pruning, botrytis infections at the site of freeze damage, etc. Don't panic, the roses will survive. |
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| I think I'm going to start to put the roses that are in pots in the ground. That way at least the root system will stay cool. Sitting out in pots with the sun beating down on them is warming up the soil in the pots and waking the roses up. If we get a hard freeze I can cover them up. My daffodils are ready to bloom. Probably some time this week. Tulips are starting to push. Nothing I can do except watch the weather and start to clean things up a little. |
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