Spring, Winter, Spring, Winter – Enough Already!
It’s time for spring to stop goofing around and get serious. Last weekend we had snow, and I really am not in the mood for any more winter wonderland. There wasn’t much accumulation and it melted pretty fast, but still.
And now we may get more of the same kind of limited but unseemly snowfall this coming weekend. All this April snow is causing disorientation as to season.
Here’s a little video Judy took on Saturday of April snowflakes.
Also, in a few days the temperature is supposed to go several degrees below freezing, which causes the Daffodils and other plants to go limp, as their cells pump out water to reduce the danger of bursting. A clever adaptation, but droopy Daffodils cause my spirits to droop as well.
With a little perspective, I force myself to admit that April was a lot worse in 2015 than it has been so far this year. Also, friends in other parts of the country have been hit with a lot more snow and cold than we’ve had to cope with here. Still, if you can’t complain about the weather, what can you do?
Also, I want to get out in the garden this weekend. Oh, where are the sunny but comfortably cool days of April?
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poor guys 🙂
My heart goes out to them.
Hope your weather soon sorts itself out!
Me too! Not there quite yet.
Thats so disruptive for you, your garden and your wildlife Jason, I hope you have a return to better weather soon.
Should get better next week.
Well, if there is too much snow to garden, perhaps you can make a snow angel. I would like to see a video of that, please! Our current forecast for Saturday night in the Upstate (SC) is 33 F. In all honesty, I’d like to have a stern word with Mother Nature. Doesn’t she know who her friends are?!!!
Sorry, not enough snow for angels. Maybe in December. Mother Nature seems to be a very fickle friend indeed – a fair weather friend, one might say.
Hi Jason, it sounds as if we are having similar weather to yourselves and I for one am getting heartily sick of it!
I’m with you. At least it can’t last forever.
Yup. More snow this am here.
Woke up with snow on the ground this morning, but it melted by afternoon.
This has been the worst April so far. I will join you for a little whine. It is supposed to freeze the next several nights. I am sick of it already. We must be patient. We must be…
It’s not easy, though, is it?
In just a t-shirt, I took 25 bags of leaves off the perennial beds, and two days later it dropped to the 20’s and snowed. Excuse me Mother Nature, but enough all ready. We just keep going from winter to spring and there’s not a lot that can be done outside here right now. Frustrating for sure, and I wonder about fruit crops. 🙂
I can tell you that my crabapple tree did not seem to get many visits from pollinators this year. Many of the days the blooms were open, the weather was cold, windy and/or rainy. I do wonder whether that will translate into fewer pollinated flowers and less fruit. It will be interesting to see.
(Last year, the tree bloomed about a week later, was covered with buzzing bees, wasps and other pollinators, and ultimately produced a bumper crop of fruit.)
Yes, it’s really heartbreaking when the blossoms on the fruit trees are blasted.
We had frost yesterday and it’s forecast again for Sunday morning. I can move the pots into the garage, but other things are in danger. I just want the hummingbirds to show up and this cold weather isn’t helping.
Ii know, this weather makes me worry for the hummers and the butterflies.
Hope milder weather comes your way soon and you get a good stretch of time in the garden.
I’m still hoping for that as well. Maybe next weekend.
Being changeable like this is worse than spring just being late. Hope none of your plants are lured into flowering too early and then being lost. When is the last time you could have snow?
In Chicago, hard to say. August?
Oh, misery loves company! Our weather patterns have been the same as yours. The only difference is that the flowers are not yet in bloom in central Maine. They have learned not to show their pretty heads until the end of the month or the beginning of May 😉
Smart flowers.
I’ve been feeling the same way, Jason. We haven’t had the snow, but it’s been so cold recently, and there’s a freeze warning for tomorrow. I think I’m more antsy than usual because of the warm days we had earlier, and I have a lot of half-finished clean-up jobs. And even if it isn’t so cold, the wind has been horrendous!
When the weather is like this in April I start to take it personally. We’ve had a lot of wind also.
You can come to Austin, but you should leave before July.
I’d love to go when I can see the bluebonnets in flower.
We all can relate – here on Wednesday we got almost a FOOT of snow after it had all melted!
Yikes!
The weather is like a yo-yo here too. Hard freeze expected Saturday night. Spring, please come and stay!
Amen!
I feel a lot better, knowing I’m not the only one suffering with this crazy on-again, off-again spring. We have had snow twice this week. I’m getting very grumpy.
As the poet said, April is the grumpiest month.
Today has consisted of several blizzardy snow showers –the wind! I thought we had enough wind in March. We’re all getting kind of grumpy.
Things seem to be getting better now, though.
In the 80’s here yesterday…weather keeps getting crazier and crazier everywhere.
Can’t imagine weather that warm.
Gardeners are known for their patience…. as well as their impatience! Hope it warms up enough for you this weekend Jason.
I lean more towards impatience.
It’s been the same here and we got about 5 inches of snow. It took it a couple of days to melt because the temperature dropped into the teens at night.
It’ll warm up eventually.
Yes it will, as unlikely as that sometimes feels.
I completely agree with you. It also driving me crazy. All my asparagus are sending out shoots and they are flopping back limp with cold. Let’s all together complain so that the weather listens; then she forces out winter and brings back in spring 🙂
Oh, ruined fresh asparagus-that’s a real tragedy.
I feel for you and your garden/yard. Our weather has also been weird, very on and off, but the strangest thing for us has been that rather than straight rain or snow, we’ve been having hailstorms with strong winds.
Oh, hailstorms can be very bad news.
Arggghhh! I have had enough after 4 days of snow and cold…and more this weekend….come back spring!
We’ve seen a big improvement the last couple days.
This is payback for the warm weather we had in December and January – I am sure everything evens out eventually, it usually does. I would have preferred to have the warm weather NOW though! Over here in Britain we have had a rather cold spring so far too, but no snow yet in London, and I sincerely hope I won’t see any now, although the latest I have seen snow in previous years is 8th April…..not jinxing anything, am I??
I am planning a week-end doing gardening work, hope you can do the same 🙂
Couldn’t get into the garden last weekend. Hope to do so next weekend.
Yes, it does feel like a continuation of March, doesn’t it? Next week looks better, if we … can … just … hang on …
It’s greatly improved as of today. Hope it stays that way.
04/09/2016 Saturday AM 2 inches of fresh “spring-time” arrived last night. My poor peonies!
This will make a beautiful Christmas card in December.
Hope the peonies don’t suffer any permanent damage.
I still have juncoes at my bird feeders!
I think our juncos have moved on.
They are predicting a little wet snow here tomorrow morning. After our mild winter, April really is living up to its billing as “the cruelest month.”
For me its getting to be the grumpiest month.
Limp daffadowndillies would dishearten me too! Snow is not on, at all! Bad weather shouldn’t happen to good people! Hope it warms up and you get out soon.xxx
“Bad weather shouldn’t happen to good people ” – well said!
Hello Jason, I just learned (yet another) new thing from you – that daffodils and other early flowering plants pump out water to stop their cells from bursting in freezing conditions. I thought daffodils went limp because they became frosted and their cells burst and somehow, they were very quick to recover. I got the cause and effect the wrong way round for years!
Always happy to clarify things.