Star Wars Garden Gnome March Surprise!

Aucuba japonica, Japanese aucuba

Last month, temperatures were inwards the 70s too 80s inwards Middle Tennessee.

(Of course, that was the calendar week I was downwardly inwards Florida visiting my Dad too my brother.)

Trees started budding too leafing, perennials started emerging early on from their wintertime naps too I rushed to some local nurseries to stock upwards novel plants for the garden.

Spring was inwards the air!

And too then it wasn't.

Last night, the depression bottomed out close xx degrees Fahrenheit. Highs convey been stuck inwards the 30s the past times yoke of days (more than xx degrees below normal). We're supposed to dip downwardly to to a greater extent than or less xx i time again this night earlier temperatures start recovering to to a greater extent than seasonal levels.

I wandered to a greater extent than or less the garden this afternoon too happily almost of the plants - both novel additions too established stalwarts - appear to live taking the mutual frigidity snap inwards stride.

I don't convey pics from today to share, but I did desire to portion images from final Sat morning time when nosotros awoke to a precipitous morning time snowfall squall that had non been inwards the forecast. It melted hours later it fell, but it was beautiful spell it lasted. Enjoy!

Camellia japonica

Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Duke Gardens', Japanese plum yew (brand novel add-on to the garden)

Ribes aureum, clove currant, profiled simply a yoke of weeks ago. As y'all tin flaming see, the flowers convey opened. I've found that clove currant has a delicious fragrance (can y'all approximate what it smells like?), but exclusively if I larn correct downwardly too practically bury my olfactory organ inwards the flower. So far, both the blooms too the leaves appear pretty much impervious to snowfall or cold, which I approximate it is to live expected from a deciduous shrub that leafs out so early.

Ilex vomitoria, dwarf yaupon holly (another build novel add-on to the garden... I planted 3 unlike cultivars, ii woman individual 'Taylor's Rudolph' specimens too i manly individual 'Schilling's Dwarf'. I intend this is the male, but it's difficult to say with the snowfall obscuring whatever berries that mightiness live at the middle of the shrub.)

Juniperus virginiana 'Grey Owl', eastern reddish cedar

Hyacinthus orientalis (hyacinths)! My commencement twelvemonth growing these beauties. Very impressed with their capacity to stand upwards stiff alongside mutual frigidity too snow. I intend this is 'Peter Stuyvesant'.