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I may be wrong, but I think our climate, NC/SC region, are too warm for cherries to do well. It's either too warm and humid or not enough winter chill hours.? That's why you don't see a whole lot around here, but ornamental cherries do OK

Yeah, ornamentals and flowers, seem to be fine, other than a little damage/ burn on the tips! Jap maples already pushing out new growth, now if we could just shake this drought!! Already saw an article on ( accuweather) I know, but said we should have a weak / moderate El Niño going as we head into fall, and would mean a snowy winter for the east, and they didn't expect a raging, Godzilla Nino, like two years ago!

Sucks to look out and see all the dead leaves and flowers ! My Japanese maples look sickly with black dead leaves, that started coming out in February!! Due to the early leaf out, because of the record warm winter, this may have been as bad or worse than the April 07 freeze! Early call is 90-95% of peach crop killed in SC by this freeze !

Hit 24.2 this AM! Tonight should be scary! One of our local mets father, owns an apple farm in NC, they are very concerned about the crop!! I still think 18/19 imby!

I read somewhere that peach bud/ flowers and apple buds/flowers are killed 24 degrees! One of our local guys said if it gets to 20-22 degrees, it could kill 95% of upcoming peach crop! Tomorrow night should be the coldest night, and I expect widespread upper teen outside the mountains, in outlying areas

I would cover as much as you can! I had clematis in bud and they survived 24/25 last week, but we could easily see upper teens to low 20s Wed night! If the hydrangea bloom on old wood only ( old fashioned types) their buds are very sensitive to freezes and you would get 0 flowers this year, maybe even if you cover! Need to get a few new kind like " Endless Summer" and such that bloom on old and new wood! And maybe some oak leaf hydrangeas that bloom in mid summer and have no buds yet

Boarding fees go up after midnight tomorrow, get in early!

About as useless as rain!

F_\_ winter! I'm sure NC will get snow! Why not, it's March!

The little white " non dandelion dandelions, suck! They really mean you have bad , compacted soil! But since this seems to be what your after, job well done!

Never fished there . See a lot of good fish being caught lately. I heard they don't like new fisherman coming and fishing !? But I know Greg lacroy

Yeah! That's awesome! Going this Saturday night for a night tourney! Of course it'll be the coldest night in about 30 days! And saw somebody caught 40+ pound yellow carp at Pops lake last week!

You may just need a controlled burn, and start over!

I love clover season! It seems to mingle well with dandelion season, and ooooh , that crabgrass tho !

The beautiful purple carpet of weeds you have, is called henbit! It's a great addition to any winter lawn!

Ok, cool thanks! I'm in aprime spot, and unlike our snowstorms, the bullseye won't shift to my NW!

I know, they always told us in the 80s, it'll burn your cornea or retinas, the light that's not obscure, the outer ring, is way brighter than just the sun! I think it might be safe , with welding goggles!?

It's hard to get grass to grow in shade. Fescue is your best bet, still not great, should do a ground cover like mondo grass, liriope, ajuga! Good luck

I have rose of Sharon leaves coming out! They are usually one of the last trees to break dormancy , in the first or middle of April! Just crazy! And I've seen some Bermuda sod put down over the winter, starting to green up!

I don't understand all the fuss about something you can't look at anyway!? But you best believe I'll be trying to take selfies of me , trying to get the eclipse in the picture!

The average person that does not understand that this may include watering everyday, should not plant in summer. I do it all the time as well, but know the dedication it takes to baby them. If anybody installed last summer , without an irrigation system, they most likely lost all their newly planted trees and shrubs!

That's probably a 3-5 degree zone jump for planting, Chicago is probably zone 4 or 5 and ATL is zone 8 ! You will be able to plant way more varieties of trees and flowers, that wouldn't survive Chicago winters!

You can plant trees and shrubs year round down here, fall ( Oct) being best, then dead of winter , then early spring( now), summer is worst time to plant trees and shrubs. Don't plant summer annuals yet, like petunias, marigolds and such, wait till after April 15th as a general rule! You can mulch of course, prune roses and butterfly bushes, if you have them in February. Pruning on trees and shrubs should be done in dead of winter, before they break dormancy, but now would probably be ok. Anything can be planted in pots now, except summer annuals. You can plant pansies now, and they will last through about May, they are winter annuals and die when it gets consistently in the 80s, unless you have fescue grass, don't do anything besides put down pre emergent now!

Not sure if you can mix the two! But I don't think centipede can survive much outside the coastal areas, due to its lack of cold hardiness.

I have new growth coming up from my lantanas!!! If y'all know anything about them, they love heat and just can't fathom new growth this early! The two cultivars that come back reliably for me every year are: Miss Huff and Chapel Hill Yellow!