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Spring Blooms In The Middle Of Winter ~
Admin • May 31, 2019
Rose budding early
Across the Bluegrass the atypical warm weather in Central Kentucky is prompting some trees, bulbs and shrubs to bloom when they shouldn’t. Daffodil and tulip bulbs are sending up tender green periscopes. Lenten roses, or hellebores, are in full bloom, and even roses are budding. That’s something you don’t normally expect to see until March.
These out-of-season blossoms fit into two categories: fall flowers that are having an extended blooming period, and spring flowers that are opening up too early. Asters, toad lilies, chrysanthemums and certain anemones are examples of flowers that usually bloom in the late summer and fall but are also appearing in gardens this winter.
Many spring woody plants are starting to wake up early as well, like winter jasmines, rhododendrons and azaleas. These plants, and nearly all bulbs, require a minimum period of dormancy to produce a “bloom budget.” This ‘budget’ determines how they’ll perform when it’s time to bloom the following season. Plants like forsythia, and trees like dogwood, only flower once a year so if they spend their budget now they won’t flower again this spring.
Fortunately, not all flowering plants are confused. But for the out-of-season bloomers, the main culprits in their discombobulation are warm soil and air temperatures. Warm soil temperature induces a plant to send out shoots. Those shoots send out foliage, or leaves, which the plants use to make their own food through photosynthesis. When the plant has enough energy, it will create more roots, shoots and flowers.
While we’ve gone into a cold snap this week, forecasts for Kentucky and the entire Ohio Valley for this winter show an average a 6° increase in temperature and precipitation at one inch below average, so the out of sync blooming isn’t likely to end any time soon. The best way to handle these out of season blooms is to keep watering your spring-flowering shrubs, like rhododendrons, azaleas, mountain laurels and camellias, until the first frost arrives. You’ll also want to continue maintaining your early bloomers as you would if they had bloomed in the spring.
This extra-warm weather doesn’t by itself kill off healthy plants. So don’t worry too much. While you’ll undoubtedly see some reduced flowering in some plants next year, they should pull through and rebound the following year.
Forsythia only bloom once a year
Probably not with silver bells and cockleshells*, considering there aren’t any sandy beaches in central Kentucky 😉
February 15, 2019 Lexington, KY – Mow Mow’s Landscaping is proud to announce that it has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award (SSA) for the second year in a row! This award honors service professionals who have maintained exceptional service ratings and reviews on Angie’s List in 2017 & 2018. “The service providers that receive our Angie’s List Super Service Award demonstrate the level of excellence that members have come to expect,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks. “These pros are top-notch and absolutely deserve recognition for the trustworthy and exemplary customer service they exhibited in the past year and overall.” Angie’s List Super Service Award 2018 winners have met strict eligibility requirements, which include maintaining an “A” rating in overall grade, recent grade and review period grade. The SSA winners must be in good standing with Angie’s List, pass a background check, record a current trade license attestation and abide by Angie’s List operational guidelines. “Mow Mow’s goal has always been to exceed our customer’s expectations in quality of work, professionalism and promptness of service. It is an honor to receive this reward and be recognized for attaining this goal for the 2nd year in a row.” – Jennifer Medrano, Owner Mow Mow’s Landscaping has been listed on Angie’s List since 2017 when the company was first launched. This is the second time Mow Mow’s Landscaping has received this honor. Service company ratings are updated continually on Angie’s List as new, verified consumer reviews are submitted. Companies are graded on an A through F scale in multiple fields ranging from price to professionalism to punctuality. For over two decades Angie’s List has been a trusted name for connecting consumers to top-rated service professionals. Angie’s List provides unique tools and support designed to improve the local service experience for both consumers and service professionals. ### For over two decades, Angie’s List has provided trusted reviews and information to help millions of consumers make smart hiring decisions. Angie’s List offers more than 10 million verified reviews in over 700 service categories, providing its members a credible resource for researching and comparing local service providers. Angie’s List is based in Indianapolis, Indiana and is an operating business of ANGI Homeservices (NASDAQ:ANGI). Contact: Steffanie Finkiewicz Angie’s List 303-963-8384 mediarelations@angieslist.com You can check out Mow Mow’s Angie’s List reviews here .
If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to start your garden, this is it. It’s time to start seeds indoors so they’ll be ready to plant outside when spring begins in earnest. It’s a fun project to get you through the late winter period that’s really all about waiting for spring to finally come calling.
With this record setting cold, central Kentucky is experiencing what’s known as a ‘hard freeze.’ But what exactly defines a hard freeze? –
here’s plenty of time before spring comes a long, but it’s always fun to look through magazines like Southern Living at the beautiful gardens and landscapes featured there. They’re always lush and thriving, often filled with unique plants and flowers you may have never seen before. But before you start pining for that unusual flora, there are several factors to consider if you want to be successful in having the gardens of your dream. The four most important are sun, soil, water and zone – these factors are the key to having that green thumb. Unfortunately, you can’t count on a plant’s label to give you the whole story, it’s a generalization at best.
Happy New Year! With the beginning of 2019 here upon us, it’s time to start preparing your landscape to look its best in the spring. While it is easy to hide away from the cold winter weather here in central Kentucky, be sure to spend some time in January and February knocking out some simple yard work- beyond taking down the decorations you put up for the holiday season. Not sure where to start? Here are a few helpful suggestions:
Ice melting products can damage your landscape. Rock salt is by far the leader in causing landscape damage both in the soil and via wind driven salt spray.
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