Just When It Seemed Safe To Bloom.

4-15-14 SHORT HILLS: We drove back in the rainstorm, but the traffic was light so we made good time. In the few days we were away the yard has exploded thanks to the warm, sunny days. It seems as if the plants were anxious about being late because of the severe winter and took the first opportunity to open.

The lawn is greening up, shrubs and trees are showing leaves, except for the usual late starters—ash, rose of sharon, cypress, walnut—to name a few.

But winter isn’t over if the forecasts are correct. Tonight will be in the thirties and the rain may turn to @#$%&# snow.

New blooms: clatonia, cherry, forsythia, daffodil, squill, spicebush, pachysandra, vinca minor, bloodroot, Korean boxwood.


Pachysandra.

Daffodil.

Daffodil.

Squill.