{"id":1480,"date":"2009-04-22T18:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2010-10-30T21:05:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T01:05:32","slug":"i-think-my-garden-is-two-weeks-ahead-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2009\/04\/22\/i-think-my-garden-is-two-weeks-ahead-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"I think my garden is two weeks ahead this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>I can&#8217;t believe how well my garden is doing so far this Spring.  We had a much warmer than usual March (that means above zero temps instead of -20 C!) and that seems to have put my garden ahead by at least two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Crocuses are just about finished blooming in the backyard &#8211; although the ones in the shadier front lawn haven&#8217;t come up yet).  The ones remaining in the back are wilted or just green leaves now.  Here&#8217;s what they looked like about two weeks ago at their best:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"IMG_5316 by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/3422690222\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3629\/3422690222_e117a58298.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5316\" width=\"449\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The raised garden beds have little green patches throughout &#8211; the tulips leaves are almost fully grown, as are the hyacinth leaves.  Some of the hyacinths have started to develop buds and I expect that they&#8217;ll be blooming in a few days.  The Glories of the Snow are up as well and most are in bloom.  Actually a lot of my spring bulbs are producing leaves or showing signs of life, the roses are starting to leaf out as well.  It&#8217;s certainly nice to see all the green leaves as well as spots with pink and blue flowers.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>My Danfordia irises were up and blooming last weekend, but then we let the dog out in the yard and she trampled them. \ud83d\ude41  She also ate a few of the Crocus flowers and leaves and gave us a bit of a scare late that night when she wouldn&#8217;t settle down.  She kept trying to lie down in various areas of our living room but then she&#8217;d jump up again and change spots a minute later. This went on for over two hours.  So for now we&#8217;re not letting her out in the yard &#8211; when she gets excited (seeing the new puppy next door) she tends to bit plants randomly &#8230; that&#8217;s not good when there are some toxic plants out there!<\/p>\n<p>So far my garden beds are looking good. They still have cedar mulch on them from last year.\u00c2\u00a0 I did however spend some time tidying them up and pulling out oh maybe 100 tiny maple trees that had started growing in the still bare spots in the raised beds. With all the rain we&#8217;ve had in the past few days I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have more to pull out this weekend.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>How is your garden doing this Spring?  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We had a much warmer than usual March (that means above zero temps instead of -20 C!) and that seems to have put my garden ahead by at least two weeks. The Crocuses are just about finished blooming in the backyard &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,1,36,72],"tags":[495,1073,97,85,99,5216,157,5214,5217,236,1293,119,4429,832,5215,1512],"class_list":{"0":"post-1480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blooming-today","7":"category-garden-buzz","8":"category-in-the-garden","9":"category-photography","10":"category-spring-tasks","11":"tag-crocus","12":"tag-dog","13":"tag-flowers","14":"tag-garden","15":"tag-gardening","16":"tag-glories-of-the-snow","17":"tag-green","18":"tag-greening-up","19":"tag-irises","20":"tag-leaves","21":"tag-raised-beds","22":"tag-spring","23":"tag-toxic","24":"tag-tulips","25":"tag-two-weeks-ahead","26":"tag-warm","27":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}