Wednesday, April 04, 2007
The Robin Goes Back To Sleep
As the snowflakes fly by my window, with a temperature currently of 19 degrees (a drop of almost 40 degrees from yesterday) one has to worry about all the early spring plants in full leaf or even flower. The wakerobin, Trillium cuneatum (also called little sweet Betsy), just looks too frail for this kind of climatic brutality. The magnolia blossoms are certainly toast, but hopefully ground huggers like this will prevail... we are to have four days of extremely cold weather, before the wind finally switches around to the south, and spring returns... she has some explaining to do!
// posted by IBOY @ 7:31 AM 
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Tell me about it!! Up here in Northern Iowa the wind chills are flirting with zero or below. And the wind!! My gosh how it howls! I'm just praying my crabapple holds off blooming for another week.
What a gorgeous trillium! I thought that all trilliums were called wake-robin... is it actually just the t. cuneatum?
Sally... Well I now hear that the HIGH on Saturday is to be at freezing; there will be a lot of damage.
Kim... you're right: they are all sometimes called wakerobins, but I think the term is much more used in the south (and this is a southern species).
don
Kim... you're right: they are all sometimes called wakerobins, but I think the term is much more used in the south (and this is a southern species).
don
Ah... gotcha. If I haven't mentioned it lately, I appreciate you answering all of my questions. I know that I do ask a lot, and it must get a little trying sometimes. :) (My Mom swears I never grew out of that "Why? Why? Why?" stage!)
I know in central missouri we have lost the peach crop, the grapes probably, apples, and pears.....very sad for the farmers and nurserymen who grow them.......also my garden and yard look very sad........my crabapple blossoms were just about fully open and now all gone........
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: April 08, 2007
: April 08, 2007
Nancy... two out of the last three years we've had disasterous late freezes. This climate is getting tough!
Don
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