March is definitely a serious challenge for my garden. It's the most insidious month. Two weeks of warmth in early March made my plants think that winter had come to an end. Naive, they started active growth. And I was also happy that my garden comes to life and bright colours appear in it.
But it didn't last long. The weather has made a steep turn. Probably winter has decided to leave us. And now my garden is once again covered with a thick layer of snow. The worst thing is that it's heavy wet snow. It ruthlessly breaks the fragile stems of flowers, makes the barely peckled leaves of trees shrink from the cold.
But does this mean that my garden is over? A few years ago, when climate change began to show us such surprises, I thought so. But now that this has been happening for at least five years in a row, I know that there is no threat. My flowers will have time to grow stems and bloom for the second time. Yes, now they have two spring blooms - snow and post-snow. This double flowering bothers me a bit, because the flowers must have enough strength to bloom. In addition, the bulbs should have time to renew and multiply over the summer. However, I believe in the wisdom of nature, which is able to cope with this problem.
There are plants, such as daylilies, which do not worry about such a turn of events at all. Their green leaves calmly tolerate the snow attack. And the flowers will not appear soon, when the threat of snow and frost finally passes.
It was as hot as about 30C on Sunday, but it snowed here yesterday. This is March!
There are plants that get used to weather changes and others that don't, let's hope all your plants withstand it because they are very beautiful, especially that flower with that intense violet color, what a beauty! 😍