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moobu2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:38 PM
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Where I live the cherry trees and Japanese magnolias are in full bloom.
Edited on Fri Jan-09-09 09:44 PM by moobu2
I noticed today that the azalea blooms are swelling up and other woody plants are sprouting. I haven’t turned my heat on one time this winter either (saved a bundle). That’s never happened here before, never never ever. I live in South Alabama.
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:39 PM
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1. Where do you live?
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moobu2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:43 PM
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4. South Alabama
We usually have some pretty cold weather though and normally I run my central heat the entire season (2 1/2 -3 months). Bet we have a bad hurricane season.
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 08:12 AM
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14. Its been rather mild in FL. I'm assuming we're in for a bad hurricane season as well.
Just what we need to go along with our Depression style economy.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:40 PM
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2. My tomatoes lasted until the day after x-mas
rarely make it to T-day
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:29 PM
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13. I am in Orlando
and we have not had a single frost. My apple, mango, and peach trees are in bloom and I am still harvesting tomatoes. Turtles have been coming up from the lake and laying eggs in the yard and that usually happens in March. Very strange year.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:40 PM
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3. Sounds like? US? MX? Peru? Greenland?? nt
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moobu2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:48 PM
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5. I edited the OP to ad where I live.
Edited on Fri Jan-09-09 09:48 PM by moobu2
I’m going to take a photo of some of them and post it here tomorrow.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:01 PM
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10. Thanks. I pruned my stuff today. And saw some new growth.
Very weird winter in Houston, too. Very nasty, or nice. In January.
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CurtEastPoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:49 PM
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6. Atlanta here..I noticed my daffodils coming up and I saw a forsythia
bush in full bloom last week. That's a little early. February...maybe.
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moobu2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:55 PM
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7. Yeah I think ours is about a month or so early,
Normally this happened here in mid to late February. Spring has spung here.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:22 PM
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12. My paperwhite narcissist started blooming in December and are almost finished
They used to bloom in February. I'm outside of Tallahassee, Florida.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 09:57 PM
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8. Wisconsin here
About 18" of snow on the ground and a low of 5 degrees tonight.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:00 PM
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9. We're entering the deep freeze for the next week or so currently 7 degrees here in Fulton, New York.
Our winter came on earlier than in recent years. We've been going back and forth from snow to icy rain and back to snow. It's weird, because around Christmas we were warmer than Houston and New Orleans! They had snow and we had rain!
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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:04 PM
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11. we've got some flowering cherries blooming in Raleigh!
My daffodils are at least 6 inches out of the ground. we recently had a day with wide temp swings - 35 to 65 to 40 to 65 to 35 - in 24 hours (probably in 12 hours, actually).

No wonder the plants are confused!
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ShadesOfGrey Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 08:43 AM
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17. Hi neighbor! Lots of buds on my cherry and bradford pears...

no blooms yet though. Hope the cold weather the past couple of days doesn't make them drop.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 08:37 AM
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15. Hi, neighbor. I'm in Foley.
Tulip poplars and camellias are budding out AGAIN!
Weird.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 08:41 AM
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16. Where I live . . .
the rhododendron leaves are curled tightly together as they always do when IT'S 10 DEGREES OUT. I'm so jealous of your azalea blooms!
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 09:09 AM
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18. I'm jealous
I'm so, so tired of snow and cold and ice.
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