Our one Dogwood tree is blooming
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
United States
April 10, 2013 11:30am CST
It's 80 degrees out today. I was working out in the yard and sweeping off the driveway and I noticed the white dogwood is blooming. There are two pink young dogwoods and they are still naked. They were blooming during a warm spell and then it got cold and the blossoms died. I don't know if they will start to blossom again or not.
Do you know if dogwood trees will blossom if they blossomed early and froze? Will they bloom again?
Have you lost any blossoms on your trees? Please share. Post pictures if you please.
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@mentalward (14690)
• United States
10 Apr 13
We've hit 86 so far today. I'm surprised that it's hotter up here than it is where you are but I guess everything that used to be "normal" is totally unpredictable now.
I doubt your tree would re-blossom. You may get a few strays, blossoms that would normally bloom a little after the first blossoms but, nope.
I have one tree in full blossom right now but I have no idea what it is. Being this early, it might be a dogwood tree. We have them sprinkled all around these woods. There are buds on my cherry and peach trees right now and I'm anxious to see fruit starting, even if I won't be here when the fruit is mature. (I'm looking right now to move because he has made it unbearable to live with him any longer and hope to be out of here within a couple of months.)
I have hundreds of daffodils in full bloom with dozens that haven't blossomed yet, just buds. My hyacinths have blossomed as well. My forsythia has just blossomed and I have tulips that are just budding. It is becoming so beautiful out there.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
10 Apr 13
Your Daffodils are so pretty MW. I hate it that you have to leave your home. Can't you just kick him out? I hope you are able to save and have money to move and set up housekeeping. I hope he isn't violent with you. I can't stand to live with a drunk. They are unpredictable. My first husband punched me in the nose when I was 7 months pregnant with my daughter. She is 43 now and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 13
When I drive back from the gym, there's this road that I purposely use because it has cherry trees all along one side, and usually during April time the blossoms start to come out and it's a truly wonderful sight, sadly because we have had some really bad weather, the coldest ever on record for March, it doesn't look like they are going to blossom. Such a great shame, because it really makes you appreciate mother nature. I am also having to delay planting my veggies too, because it's still too damn cold! They are promising us a heatwave in May, but I shall believe it when I see it.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
10 Apr 13
I know that's a pretty sight for you when the cherry trees are in blossom. Do you ever get to stop and pick cherries on your rides? I love fresh cherries. I miss them so much. I grew up with my grandpa having a fruit farm. I miss that. We never had to pay.
@GardenGerty (160777)
• United States
10 Apr 13
I am afraid we have lost all of our blossoms on all of our trees in the last day or two. We had been having weather in the seventies then got hit with a double whammy--winter stuff coming in from Denver and Spring winds and hail coming up from Texas. I had a peach tree blooming and cherry trees budding and flowering quince and forsythia and daffodils and tulips. They will not rebloom when it warms again. However, if the buds were very early they might go ahead and bloom out. Flowering trees need a cool but dormant period to make blossoms, which then appear when the weather gets warm.
@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
10 Apr 13
i think once the last of the cold fronts starts coming through, everything should catch back up. same thing for my rose bush out front. some are already beautiful roses. others are dying before they even get started. this is because we haven't had any weather close to 70 degrees.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
10 Apr 13
Wow! We went from winter straight into summer. It's been up in the 80s for a few days now.
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
10 Apr 13
I love dogwoods trees they are so pretty. When I lived in New Mexico they were all over in my area. I don't know information about them except that they have two seasons. They bloom in the spring where it will produce either white or pink flowers. Then in the fall they will turn a scarlet red. If I remember correctly, they will bloom again and again every year. There is also miminal pruning needed. My favorite are the trees with the pink flowers. I live in Puerto Rico now and we don't have these types of trees here.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
10 Apr 13
Yes I noticed they have two seasons, so maybe they will catch up. I want some pictures of the yard when it is in full bloom.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
11 Apr 13
I love my trees here but they are evergreens and maple trees, the trees that can take colder weather. I don't know anything about dogwoods, never seen them before. I imagine like most plants if they get to cold they won't bloom. I don't know if they will bloom after they have been frozen.
@celticeagle (167429)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Apr 13
where my ex and I used to live there is a huge dogwood tree. It is so pretty this time of year. So is the tulip tree/bush. I live in Idaho and the tree blooms every year. If some blossoms freeze there is still enough to bloom.