Warmer winter has flowers blooming early — and that isn't good
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Mild temperatures in July are tricking some plants into budding — and that'll be bad when the frost returns.

Just when I was complaining about the warm winter yesterday.

  • Wendy_MsGator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve got mates on Mastodon making the same comments about gardens in Melbourne. I noticed this about 10 years ago when I was living in the Newcastle suburb of Lambton.

    I had a small garden of agapanthus that used to flower in time for the Christmas dinner table. Then they started flowering in November and were dead or dying by Christmas.

    It’s getting worse.

    From Mastodon:

    Strange goings on in the garden this year.

    Gerbera, Chocolate Mint and Sensitive plant, all alive and thriving.

    I’ve never seen anything like it, normally all three of these plants would have died before April and yet here we are deep in Freezing July and all three are doing very well.

    I am astonished.

    #Melbourne #Australia #Plants