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Gardening

hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Mon May 20, 2013, 10:36 PM May 2013

I have never seen such a magnificent year for my Spring flowering plants -

from the crocus to the lilacs and honey suckle - everything escaped the frost

BUT -

no honey bees!

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I have never seen such a magnificent year for my Spring flowering plants - (Original Post) hedgehog May 2013 OP

It was pretty unusual here - lots of early flowering trees came out too early - NRaleighLiberal May 2013 #1

Minnesota went from snow blowers to lawn mowers in about 2 weeks Thor_MN May 2013 #2

Bees ColumbusLib May 2013 #3

NRaleighLiberal

(60,513 posts)

1. It was pretty unusual here - lots of early flowering trees came out too early -

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2013, 10:42 PM

May 2013

quite a few magnolia, peach, plum, and crabapples came out got nipped with late frosts. Some things were really confused and bloomed out of typical sequence.

Most recently it was beautiful - lilacs, azaleas - and fast! we are moving quickly into summer here, though it is relatively mild, and quite wet.

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

2. Minnesota went from snow blowers to lawn mowers in about 2 weeks

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2013, 12:05 AM

May 2013

It did keep the rabbits off my spring bulbs which are now flowering and the lilacs are just starting to flower.

ColumbusLib

(158 posts)

3. Bees

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2013, 02:49 PM

May 2013

Tons of bees here- it was very hot yesterday and they were dive-bombing all around the yard as I tried to garden!

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