Parkway Tulip Tips Shoot Up - February 2024
We've had a VERY mild Winter. There was a span of about three weeks when it was brutally cold and it seemed like it snowed every.single.day. But, overall...it was mild. And that's likely turned a number of gardening variables on their ears. Emergence. Bloom time. Exposure to late Frosts. And, more, I'm sure. One of the 'mild Winter' related change that I saw VERY early in January was that the tulip bulbs that I had planted around the parkway tree had ALREADY come up, out of the mulch. By January 5th. J A N U A R Y. That seems VERY early. It was BEFORE that three-week spell of 'brutally cold' weather that I mentioned above. But, tulips being tulips, the foliage didn't mind the weather. (or...the snow blanket was sufficient insulation.) I'm *very* aware of mulch volcanoes around trees and worry that every year - when we add another layer of mulch - that I'm burying things and creating problems. Everyone sa...