If you are in one of the sections of the USA that is experiencing a warm or nonexistent winter, an early season, and wondering exactly where your winter weather went, look no further. Seemingly all the cold and snowy weather in the USA has been shoved over here to the Pacific northwest. Last night made for the heaviest, sloppiest snow until the temps plunged here early this morning to the mid-twenties. That’s the third heavy snowfall within the last eight days. This morning we’re also under a freezing fog advisory which doesn’t happen here too often.
Photo from this morning here of the seedlings in Miniature Bed #14 on March 22nd, 2012. They were close to peak yesterday. Please add a lengthy, heartfelt but exasperated, long suffering, HUGE SIGH while viewing to get the full photo experience. Here in northern Oregon we are starting to think about holding a July 4th daffodil show…………. :-)
Steve,
Here in Coastal Northeast North Carolina we are thinking about moving our show up to President’s day in February. My daffodil beds that are usually just now in Full Bloom is instead a wasteland of drying bugs and ready for deadheading.
Clay
Wondering if Mother Nature went on a bender this winter and got things all mixed up??
Strange weather all over.
Phyllis Hess
Careful Clay!
When I first started showing daffodils in Memphis and Arkansas in the 1980s, the winters were cold and I always had plenty of flowers the last weekend of March. Then in the late 90s it started getting warmer. My flowers began to start blooming in February. They would be beyond peak the second week of March. I took a lot of rlowers to the Jackson convention in 1998. Then the last two winters were colder again. Then this winter/spring have been the warmest in the 30 years I have been showing daffodils. I will be able to take only about 10 good entries to the Arkansas show this week. Who knows what next year will be like.
I guess one possible solution is to buy some new daffodils and plant them in late November, if you live in the south. I did that with some daffodils this season. They have bloomed later than usual.
Through no fault of mine, the Little Rock National Convention in 2014 has been set for the last weekend of March. I can only pray for a cold winter in this area that year. If not, I guess we will have to depend on Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Ohio to bring flowers. I am sure we also can count on Oregon and California.