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It has been such a wild year weather-wise in Indiana this year I don't know what to expect yard-wise. It was actually 80 degrees one day in March! Anyway, EVERYTHING is blooming at least a month ahead of schedule. Our clematis are nearly done (usually bloom through the end of June), our coral bells are nearly done--began in April rather than May, our roses are blooming like they do in July, our peonies have been gone for over two weeks--used to still be blooming well after Memorial Day, our iris are bloomed and gone, our daylillies have been blooming for weeks and--our hostas are HUGE--some as big as bushel baskets--I will need to divide them this fall!
Nothing died out, including the weeds! Memorial Day weekend was the hottest on record (at least for the Indy 500), and I had to water the flowers every night; our geraniums and petunias in pots would be dead had I not. I would like to plant a flowering dogwood now that I have a spot for it, but I think I should wait until fall.
Crazy warmer-than-usual winters and period of extreme drought and then rain play havoc with gardening these days. We really had no true winter and have gone right into summer with maybe a week of spring. I guess we will just settle back and see how the summer plays out. I do know this--I bought some New Guinea impatiens baskets--beautiful but very thirsty!
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Hybrid Mode
