It is SNOWING!!

Dani53

Dani53

Cathlete
This happened to me last year. We had a really nice warming trend for about 6 weeks solid. The snow all melted and the shrubs were coming back. Just as the lilacs began to bloom and my golden chain started to flower, and just two days after I planted about 200.00 worth of flowers in my yard and in pots all over the deck, it snowed! I lost it all! My lilacs never flowered, my tree didn't bloom and all the annuals died.

I waited even longer this year. In fact I didn't even get it all in the ground yet. I bought the flowers but didn't even get the chance to plant them. I let the dogs out and noticed something funny outside. After my eyes adjusted to looking into the darkness I saw that it was SNOW! If my flowers all die while still sitting there in the flats I will seriously cry! I ran out and covered them with a tarp tacked to the side of my house, but I am scared at what will happen to them. Argh!
 
Dani, can't you cover them. Maybe that will offer them some protection. What a bummer. I hate sudden weather changes but unfortunately, we get them all the time.

Marla
 
Where the heck are you? Yesterday, it was 90 here, and looks like it will be about the same today. Nowhere close to snow!
 
Wow! It was 90 something yesterday and I am outside of Chicago.

I did that a few years ago with the flowers, so now I wait so long. In fact, we haven't even started planting yet. We better get going though.

Hope your flats will survive.

Dallas
 
I live near Lake Tahoe, in a small town called Truckee. Two days ago I was at the beach! I have been running around my yard in a bathing suit for two weeks doing yard work etc, and then just as I am getting brave enough to plant some flowers it goes and snows on me. Grrrr....my husband is out shovelling off the deck at the moment. I am just hoping the sun comes out and SHINES all day. Certain flowers like marigolds, and allysum don't like the snow too well, and I just love them too much not to try planting them each year. I roll the dice, and I think I lost two years in a row. We'll see. I did cover everything I could but hopefully that will be enough and my flats of unplanted flowers will survive.

Thanks for the empathy! It doesn't save my investment, but it does help to whine a bit and get some sympathy;-)
 
Lake Tahoe sounds beautiful. I live in Colorado and never ever ever plant anything until after memorial day. The weather can change so drastically here that it just isn't worth spending the money on if there is a chance it could snow.

I hope your plants make it through the snow, it is very disappointing. I feel for you.

Diana
 
ugh!! what a drag. I love snow but not in June!!! I'm sorry about your plants.

--Lois


"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning" - Mahatma Ghandi
 
I never plant until Memorial Day either, just to be on the safe side. Looks like Dani would have been SOL either way, though.:(
 
I agree with the Memorial Day thing, and have waited, in fact I bought them after the holiday weekend. In a sense it was a good thing because while I did plant some things, most of the annuals are still in the flats and I could gather them together under a tarp. I checked them today after the snow melted off and there is some burn to a number of them but it does not look like they are all toast. Thankfully!!

More weather is on the way, so I will be holding off on the verdict. Yikes!
 
Wow. I woke up to rain here in the Bay Area and thought about complaining about it, until I read your post about SNOW- cripes!

I'll be thinking good (warm!) thoughts for all your flowers!!!
 
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