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Right now it is really cold (35F) outside for the plants and the bees. We have only 4 lilacs in bloom now some how they escaped the hard frost that the other 20 plants got hit by and lost there flower buds. We have a yellow honey suckle in bloom one bush out of three and it appears that the pink are not going to bloom at all. The flowering crab had the sparsest bloom i've seen in 27 years usally a favorite of the bees and not one this year. Apple trees are blooming at odd times also when they usally bloom all at once. I have two about gone by and one just budding out. The red buds didn't do much more than let you know they were red buds. wild plum was a wash out too. The pears flowered and held on for about a week.
Flowering Almonds, the one on the back side of the house east side bloomed a week ago and is holding on to them it seems. The one on the west side of the house just barly has leaf buds on it despite the warmer after noon sun it gets.
The quince bushes had good blooms but it was in the high 30F low 40F range then so the bees were not flying.
Daffidils bloomed at three different time even though they were planted beside each other. Tulips never did bloom for some reason.
The girls seem to be working dandalions and creeping charlie when it warms up.
Weather person said yesterday we are having some strange weather also. About 5F below normal then add in the wind chil from the strong winds we seem to have every day and it feels like 10F below our normal 60F.
Even the trees are not leafing out like normal. Waiting on the Ginkos so I can see if I need to pound some fertilizer stake in around them but they just ain't even showing signs of budding out.
Walking thru the woods is like walking shrunk down thru a pick up sticks game children are playing. Can't believe the amount of up rooted trees and ones with snapped off tops not to mention the ones just plain blowen down, adding in the limbs.
Going to have lots of wood to cut for fire wood out of that mess.
The wind was on the weak side yeaterday only hitting 40 MPH at the peak the wether station recorded.
This weather has brought out the whiners in droves. That 10 days of 70F, 80F weather in March really fixed their wagon good.
I love to say this is MICHIGAN live with it or south is that away stop when your happy.
During that heat wave my daughter in Wisconsin built some raise beds for veggies. I told her not to plant any thing yet. Now she is calling and telling me she has to cover the stuff so much she needs to go buy a tent. I tell her to listen to me next time when I say not to plant any thing.
Al
Flowering Almonds, the one on the back side of the house east side bloomed a week ago and is holding on to them it seems. The one on the west side of the house just barly has leaf buds on it despite the warmer after noon sun it gets.
The quince bushes had good blooms but it was in the high 30F low 40F range then so the bees were not flying.
Daffidils bloomed at three different time even though they were planted beside each other. Tulips never did bloom for some reason.
The girls seem to be working dandalions and creeping charlie when it warms up.
Weather person said yesterday we are having some strange weather also. About 5F below normal then add in the wind chil from the strong winds we seem to have every day and it feels like 10F below our normal 60F.
Even the trees are not leafing out like normal. Waiting on the Ginkos so I can see if I need to pound some fertilizer stake in around them but they just ain't even showing signs of budding out.
Walking thru the woods is like walking shrunk down thru a pick up sticks game children are playing. Can't believe the amount of up rooted trees and ones with snapped off tops not to mention the ones just plain blowen down, adding in the limbs.
Going to have lots of wood to cut for fire wood out of that mess.
The wind was on the weak side yeaterday only hitting 40 MPH at the peak the wether station recorded.
This weather has brought out the whiners in droves. That 10 days of 70F, 80F weather in March really fixed their wagon good.
I love to say this is MICHIGAN live with it or south is that away stop when your happy.
During that heat wave my daughter in Wisconsin built some raise beds for veggies. I told her not to plant any thing yet. Now she is calling and telling me she has to cover the stuff so much she needs to go buy a tent. I tell her to listen to me next time when I say not to plant any thing.
Al
