[Magdalen] Spring has Sprung.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

David S. Flowering Dogwood, early rhododendrons and
>> azaleas, and finally the broadleaf rhododenrons, various lilacs and
>> spireas.  I shouldn't forget the flowering cherries and crabs.
>>
>> This year instead they have been blasted into flower by the 85 F
>> temperatures, and it's all over in a blink.

I just read something about allergies being worse this year because of the 
protracted winter cold... more of a variety of things blooming at the same 
time and out of synch.

Lynn


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From: <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 5:42 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>; <Cantor03 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Spring has Sprung.

> If there is a deer repellent that (a) actually repels deer and (b) does 
> not harm plants, at least so far as Central Texas deer and plants are 
> concerned I don't know what it is.  Some people here think coyote urine is 
> a good deer repellent (and, yes, believe it or not you can purchase dried 
> coyote urine), and it may work.  We are having a wet spring and rain 
> washes away the reconstituted urine so this would not be the year to try 
> it.  In recent arid years the deer would, for want of preferred food, eat 
> any plant that wasn't hairy or spiny or thorny or outright poisonous.
> ---- Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>> Predictably, the USA Northeast seems to be having a spring
>> development very much like I was used to in the USA Upper Midwest.
>>
>> IOW, there really isn't a spring at all, but rather a changeover from
>> late winter cold directly into summer with the heat and humidity
>> characteristic of the latter season.
>>
>> This is too bad, because my favorite season here in the Pennsylvania
>> Poconos has been spring, characterized by gradual warming through
>> a couple of months following the winter chill.  This encourages a 
>> wonderful
>> parade of flowering plants from daffodils and tulips through the  Asian
>> and native magnolias, Flowering Dogwood, early rhododendrons and
>> azaleas, and finally the broadleaf rhododenrons, various lilacs and
>> spireas.  I shouldn't forget the flowering cherries and crabs.
>>
>> This year instead they have been blasted into flower by the 85 F
>> temperatures, and it's all over in a blink.
>>
>> This week to boot, my single 24' Japanese Cryptomeria has gone
>> brown over 50% of its foliage.  I suspect my garden guy and his
>> heavy spraying with deer repellant.
>>
>> Sometimes you just can't win.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang - with air conditioners on.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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