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Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 8:16
| Wow. I cannot count all the Robins on my urban plot these last few days. I gave up after 100. I have 3 birdbaths and they are drinking like they've been on vacation in Death Valley. What's up with that? I have to keep refilling the birdbaths..... Going to HD today for fish emulsion. I'm thinking I will give my teas/chinas a weak drink. They have all done well so far. Growing. Beautiful foliage. Even disbudded a couple of noisettes that want to bloom! My Fortune's 5 Color is really happy. Niles Cochet is doing really well. Matter of fact, they are all coming along nicely with the exception of "La Reine" who remains a one cane wonder and the old HT bands I transplanted to gallons in the fall. Finally stripped all foliage from Eglantyne and Glamis Castle, neither of whom went dormant (in pots near the house). My wintersown seeds are coming along well and it appears my grafted HTs in pots have survived thus far. We have had a few nights in the teens but no consecutive teen lows. I'm not going to go nuts and remove winter protection. It's just that I can see Spring coming and it feels great. Amazing as I get older how quickly time doth pass. Anyone else in the temperate zones feeling Spring? Susan |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 9:57
| I can see spring coming. My Witch Hazels are blooming. There are a few daffodils open. The primroses are like little jewels everywhere. A few buds of ceanothus are open. The Daphne is getting ready. The roses look like they are beginning to think it's time to wake up. |
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| YES. We've had a week of spring - supposedly going back into winter in the next day or two. But, roses are starting to pop out buds, bulbs are breaking ground, and it just feels heavenly outside. I'm ahead of schedule this year - weeds are under control instead of being knee high, and pruning of roses and trees is done. Just bought my fertilizer for March, and if it's not raining this weekend, will start the huge task of the heavy pre-spring mulch - I think this is my heaviest task of the year - moving many hundreds of pounds of manure. The garden holds so much hope this year. And yes, time flies faster and faster with each passing year! |
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- Posted by jeannie2009 PNW 7/8 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 10:57
| Yes oh yes..spring is on the way. Only have male robbins here. They've been here a couple of weeks. Buds breaking out all over. The rose bushes have tiny buds and some of them have tiny leaves. Many of the rose bushes retained their leaves this winter. Hubbie and I have been building the last of the raised garden beds...veggies. Cant grow squat in glacial rock but great drainage. Forgot to put sunscreen on yesterday...have a red nose and cheeks today. Gotta love non-ElNino weather. Did 2 years of that...glad its over. Gotta go clean up 2 horses...get more horse poops...like that...life's ggood... Jeannie |
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| We have two distinct groups of robins that come to this area. According to a local bird expert, the hordes we see in January come in large groups and eat the berries from shrubs and trees, and in fact, our trees were stripped of any berries on them a couple of weeks ago. In early spring another bunch of the birds arrives from the south, pair off and raise families. These robins feed on insects. So, I guess the robins we have in January and February are just berry eaters coming through and are not harbingers of spring. It's the insect eaters that stick around longer that foretell spring. It's probably different in California and the South, though. One of the most hilarious things I've witnessed during this extra cold winter is frustrated robins banging the frozen berries from trees on the sidewalk in a futile attempt to smash them (sort of like how they smash insects against the ground to make sure they are dead). The berries just rolled away like hard little balls with the annoyed robins chasing after. I don't know if they ever got a decent meal, but we certainly had a mess on our sidewalk. Diane |
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| Oh gosh, Susan, robins in Nashville is wonderful news! Spring is coming!!!! I do have some daffs just starting to poke their noses out of the ground. I hope that's not going to be a problem for them since it's been bitter cold and snowy here for that last couple of weeks. Otherwise I don't see any signs of spring around here yet. |
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| My daffs poke their noses above ground in late fall, and keep their noses out of the ground all winter. It doesn't seem to hurt them, but I can't understand what they think, in their daffy little brains, they're accomplishing by doing this. Diane |
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| I have a yellow iris blooming; it is remontant but it still seems a little strange for it to bloom in winter. A few roses haven't stopped blooming, with Sophy's Rose being one of the champions. My new bands have begun to pop out little leaves, and I'm so hoping I'll see some blooms this spring, especially the roses I've never seen before, like Lady Alice Stanley, or Devoniensis, that I've only seen once in a public garden. My new band of Marjorie Palmer has produced one lovely flower, and I'm so enamored of the deep lavender pink color. It's going to be difficult to disbud this rose until it's grown and filled out a little more. For the first time in this garden my roses have had a lot of blackspot over the last few months, and I've removed many leaves. I hope the problem will be gone by spring. I'm looking forward to taking pictures of the garden in the spring and seeing many of everyone else's gardens and roses! Ingrid |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich Nashville (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 21:59
| Robins and berries equal daily car wash. (small price to pay). Yahoo! Seil, a little birdie told me he was coming your way! |
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- Posted by floridarosez9 10 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 23:27
| My azaleas started blooming in December and now are almost over. I have a NOID rambler that normally blooms in March that's been in bloom since December. It will be interesting to see how long it stays in bloom. Some of the other roses are trying to flush while others are not. It's going to be a crazy spring. Chickasaw plums are also way early. |
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