HERE IS MYoccasional collection of apparently unrelated gardening ramblings, this time associated with 2023’s winter and the subsequent growing season in southern New England. It helps me to write down such items to better prepare myself for future seasons or to avoid mistakes that I have made in the past.
FUYU UPDATE
In general last winter was quite mild, January 2023 actually being the third warmest on record in Rhode Island, with spring bulbs confidently and substantially pushing their way up from the netherworld only a week past New Year’s Day! More often than not, counterintuitive though it may sound, a very mild winter may not be the best thing for all outdoor plantings. So it was when the first weekend in February rolled around and a brutal Arctic air mass caused the official temperature to plunge to –9 degrees (F).
Many of my favorite yard trees were
