Confused garden

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The grape hyacinth and crocus are coming back up again, all over the place in my front yard.

They were beautiful this early spring, but I'd rather they kept sleeping so they're ready for next spring.

Other than the extreme string of heat in July and August with no rain, then a four-day period recently of constant, steady rain and highs in the 50s, what might make the bulbs cycle in six months like that?

[Gormy Cuss]

1. That is confused.

I hope that they don't deplete all their energy and miss next Spring's cycle.

[1gobluedem]

2. That happened to me last fall

We had such a warm fall that my lilies started coming up again.

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4. Did they bloom healthily this spring?

I guess that's my wonder -- I'd love if I've got some bizarro flowers that just love to bloom twice a year, but I suspect maybe they're pulling this stunt now and next spring will decide to sit it out.

[1gobluedem]

6. Yes, they were thick and lush this spring

So, I guess it didn't hurt them. It was weird though.

[MorningGlow]

3. Yep

I have a wayward Johnny Jump-up that I didn't plant. It's returned this week.

But I've got all these spring plants beat when it comes to weirdness--I just looked out my side window and I think I see...CORN growing in my front lawn! I keep finding corncobs that the squirrels drag into our yard--at least, it had BETTER be the squirrels instead of our hillbilly neighbors flinging their dinner remnants!--so it could be from that. Damn, those things LOOK like corn...I think I'll leave 'em there and see what happens. (Yeah, I'm a bit of a relaxed gardener.)
:rofl:

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5. Don't look a gift corn in the mouth, I always say.

I usually pull the weird things that look like other weird things I've seen in the past. Everything else that's new and strange I'll let go to see what happens.

And then there are those plants that show up and you know right away they're little devil plants, even if you've never seen them before.