We are nearing the
end of the year, 2015, and one full week into the winter season although it feels
more like spring. The temperatures have
been quite mild throughout the fall and they continue to be mild into early
winter.
And, if I think it
feels like spring, so do all my perennials plants. I totally enjoy the warm temperatures, but I know
the plants are confused. The grass is
still green and growing even though it is usually brown by now. This is a benefit for our pasture-grazing
cattle and sheep. Green grass is tastier
and more nutritious than brown. But, I
am more concerned with my garden softscape. Perennials that have died-back for
the winter season have responded to the warm weather and are beginning to grow
again, prematurely. The growing tips of bulbs
are starting to peek out of the ground. And, several
of my spring-flowering perennials are actually flowering. This is not good.
Don’t get me
wrong. I am enjoying the surprise gifts
of bright color among the grey and muted colors of a hibernated winter garden,
but…
what flowers now will
not flower come the ‘real’ spring. Those
flowers buds will have been spent off-season.
Of course, there is
nothing I can do about the weather, so I appreciate the blossoms now. I imagine the flowers that I will miss in
the spring, due to their untimely blooming, will be diminished by the outstanding show of many more flowers that
will be in bloom...at the right time!
I guess I can categorize
this unseasonably warm season as a win-win situation.
Yep, I will take my
flowers anytime, anywhere I can get them.
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