Category: Weather and Temperature

Discussions about weather impact and temperature on daffodils.

Last daffodil of the season

It is hard to tell if this late bulbocodium will reliably produce secondary flowers. Some years the daffodils get fried at the beginning of October. This year has been one long cool wet spring. It’s a Gold Step grandchild that…

Growing tazettas

The name ‘Gramon’, in the series of tazettas I named, is short for Grand Monarch. I assume this series are genetically similar to Grand Monarch. They flower in winter here and benefit from a little frost protection. A shrub (Callistemon)…

Local Drought Over

Friday night we had a local thunder storm come through that was no more then 25 to 30 miles wide and lasted about 1 1/2 hours and gave us 4.0 inches of rain.  Our local drought is over.  I can…

Drought and Water Restrictions

We have drought in New Jersey (USA) this summer and have been put on Water Restrictions.  It only applies to those who use the city water, mine is New Jersey American Water, with a few exceptions. For me, both for…