Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed some horticultural anomalies, events seemingly out of kilter. There have been second, albeit fleeting, flushes of rhododendrons and wisteria, forget-me-nots are coming into bloom and crocus leaves emerging. Today at the Mantle Estate, my most favouritist magnolia was having another attempt. Confused? Perhaps a little. Mind you, I wouldn’t complain if spring happened again, it is after all the best season.
Confused
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Could you have a word with my rhodo, please? It hasn’t flowered for the first time this year yet! Buds get bigger but don’t show any sign of opening.
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It is just preparing for a bumper bloom next spring. Probably. 🙂
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I’m slightly confused too. I thought you were no longer at the Mantle Estate?
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Oh yes, still there, haven’t nicked all the silver yet 🙂
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Some of my spring flowering clematis are flowering for a second time, I haven’t noticed them doing so before.
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Confusion all over then!
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I have the same magnolia here at the Money Pit, and it went into a second mini-flowering about two and half weeks ago. I just looked out the window and there are three flowers right now at the very top. I put it down to the Whiplash Weather that we have had this summer, which has pingponged from high eighties F to high sixties for the past couple of days. We’ve also had regular rainfall all through July and August which is unusual as well.
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