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March...out like a lion...


GregVirginia7

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Here in NOVA, the old adage for March, in like a lion, out like a lamb...well, this year, seems more like old man winter stole the end of the month and froze the lamb...windy, mid- twenties tonight and low twenties tomorrow night. Good thing day temps will be in the forties...maybe it’ll freeze some of the  “gumballs” just forming on my sweetgum tree in my front yard...this past season, the tree produced more spiny gumballs than any year in the 30-years we’ve been here. Not to mention the wind that has scattered them to places far and wide, never reached before...but our northern visitors, the juncos and other beautiful sparrows that arrive every fall from Canada to feast on the sweetgum’s millions of tiny seeds, they couldn’t be happier...The tree serves a purpose, but what a mess! Ask the northern migrants and they’ll tell me to mind my own business...

Palms should be fine but the Medi. has suffered this past winter...weird sort of dieback on the fronds...not fried on the established fronds but fried on the emerging ones...some of the established ones are just turning yellow/brown and looking bad. They are indeed finished, but it’s a shed it’s never had in it’s 7-years in-ground. Summer will tell the story. Maybe I’ll go back to protecting it this winter. I really like that palm.

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I think I'll be OK with a low forecast 33F tonight here . I always worry about my Citrumelo since it likes to push out growth early . I'd hate for all those cool looking future fruits to have their buds zapped early . I did have some low 20's a couple weeks ago and the tips of my male inflorescences are going to turn black . 

Good luck with your tender stuff .

Will

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