ells Are Ringing  

Let's get your 52 and our 90 and compromise and we will have a beautiful temperature. We are not having a hard time getting things to grow on time down here, the only problem the farmers might have is not enough rain.

Lovely! I hope mine bloom soon, but our weather has been all over the place, too. Things are blooming early, growing taller, and just generally acting strange.

This is one of my favorite plants.

Definitely. In the past we have been able to pick cherries the second week in May, but instead they are just hard green little things still. I have a rosebush that normally would have bloomed completely out by now, and it is just beginning. I hope if it must be cool, it will be a little cool this summer.

I just looked outside to check mine, after seeing your post. I've got only one with flowers. The other ones have only the green part. I was surprised to have them pop up this year, because last year I ripped everything out and tilled and redid my landscaping in the front of my house, where I had the lily of the valley. I was happy to see that they survived.

My Lily of the Valleys are blooming too. We are in the 50's too today. Yesturday it was hot in the 80's. Things are slow in my neck of the woods too. Its almost June and before we know it, we will be complaining its too hot.

That is great. It is finally starting to warm up outside and stay warm for the flowers to bloom well. The sun is staying out and heating up alot better now also. It is late for Indiana also. It has been in the 80's for the last two days here. We would love to go swimming in our pool but that water will take many days to heat up with the cool weather we have had for several days before now.

The heat is killing stuff around here. I'm already seeing some summer flowers.

It's been very cool here, too. When I was in Arizona, we planted stuff in February or March so they'd have a chance to grow before the heat and sun killed them. Here in Ohio, people tell me not to plant till mid-may or June! So I'll be putting in my garden this week. I already have some pretty flowers.

I LOVE lillies of the valley! And lilacs, and all the beautiful wildflowers. The Midwest is heaven on earth.

I went to Mexico today, my but it is hot hot hot down here in the Rio Grande Valley.

There was a round we used to sing...
white choral bells upon a slender stalk - lilies of the valley deck my garden walk

oh don't you wish that you could hear them ring,
that will only happen when the fairies sing.

Glad to hear they have finally flowered AGB! The weather here has been much better than usual and things are growing faster than normal - how weird is that? Niamhs potatoes are much higher than they would normally be! xxxx