Flower Gardens
Bulbs Up Too Early
- Cottage_Garden
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» Cottage_Garden - Bulbs Coming Up Too Early
In response to Mild Winter Effect on Spring Bulbs posted by carbat515:Most likely they will be fine. This unseasonal warmth is amazing and bulbs are coming up like crazy because of it. To be honest, there is nothing you can do except hope for the best.
The weather should hopefully turn colder soon and slow them down. The foliage can handle cold quite well so that is not a worry.
The worry would only be if the flower buds appear or begin to open and then get hit with severe,extreme cold -- the really cold frigid temperatures of a normal northern mid winter can damage the flowers. (Some of the earliest bloomers such as snowdrops and snowcrocus don't mind it even when it snows on them.)
If they do begin to bud and it turns into the teens or colder, you might be able to protect the buds with a bit of loose mulch fluffed around them. Otherwise, hope for snow to insulate them, it is a great insulator. But as I said, there really isn't anything you can do. They will probably be just fine.
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