Star Wars Garden Gnome Early On Re-Leaf

The clove currant (Ribes aureum) started leafing out inwards piece of cake January.
This photograph was taken on March 2nd.

It's been a relatively warm wintertime hither inwards Tennessee, every bit inwards most of the Eastern U.S.

In fact, I only heard that Nashville tied its second-warmest Feb on record.

We did conduct maintain 1 mutual coldness snap (8 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit) inwards January, but by together with large it's been balmy.

So it's no surprise that the daffodils popped upwards a few weeks early.

Trees together with shrubs are ahead of schedule too, but many deciduous trees are withal bare together with leafless.

Nonetheless, in that place are exceptions.

The clove currant (Ribes aureum) started leafing out inwards piece of cake January!

If you're going to leafage out that early, you lot conduct maintain to live prepared for around chilly nights. Indeed, the clove currant foliage seemed undamaged past times iv or v nights inwards the mid-20s.

(Clove currant is a North American native, but it's non native to Tennessee. The closest native population is their tender leaves are withal real susceptible to piece of cake frosts together with freezes.)

I've exclusively been growing clove currants for a brace of years. Last year, they survived but languished on a steep clay hillside, together with then I transplanted them to a to a greater extent than congenial setting a few months ago. They appear happier instantly together with 1 of them fifty-fifty has around bloom buds, together with then I'm hoping for maybe at to the lowest degree a few currants this year! :)

Yellow bloom buds on the clove currant

As for other early on re-leafers, the crabapple tree has started unfurling its leaves over the past times week.

'Sugar Tyme' crabapple leafing out

How most inwards your garden? Which are the start deciduous trees together with shrubs to arrive at novel foliage and/or flowers? And arrive at you lot conduct maintain exotics inwards your garden whose leaves are vulnerable to precipitous saltation mutual coldness snaps?