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Typically the mountains of North Carolina is the first to have Autumn colors and the coast is last and vice versa with Spring.
This yea,r Winter has been mild has it caused Spring to come early?
We might be taking a trip to the mountains this weekend abd I want to see Rhododendron blooming, or is to early?
Or do you think the foothills be best like South Mountain or west like Upper Creek Falls? Any place to view Spring flowers would be great
Rhododendron doesn't bloom until June. Even with an early spring, it's too soon for rhodos.
I'm in the foothills of Greenville, SC, and everything here seems to be 2-4 weeks early. Someone else will have to fill you in on current blooming "on" the mountain.
As for Rhodos, there are several species and a couple dozen varietals...I have natives that bloom in May/early June,
and some hundred year old plus+ deep shade bull rhodies that put out the white blooms in late June/July, at my ~5k ft elevation.
The species and varietals from the nursery joints tend to be earlier than the natives, imo.
This faux winter and early 'spring' may have to pay the piper when the usual 2-3 hard freezes come around on the Juke Box in late April/early May.
GL, mD
Where we are in N. Georgia (right at the border of North Carolina), spring is 3 to 4 weeks early. And it's a strange one. We have super-early flowering plants blooming along with later ones. So, it's possible to see Daffodils, Forsythia, Cherry, Red Bud, Tulips, Wisteria, Phlox, etc ... along with Dogwood, which typically doesn't bloom until mid-April here.
The mountains themselves are not even fully green yet. Usually they are mostly green by the time the Dogwoods bloom.
Down in greenville I had daffodils blooming in January. It was. so. strange. The bugs are already awful now too.
I was in asheville last week and noticed dogwoods, cherries, and forsythia blooming. Wasn't really paying too much attention. It is at least 3 weeks early if not more on some plants. so very weird.
We're in Asheville. The Bradford pears and forsythia have largely gone green by now, but the redbuds are brilliant. The wisteria is just starting to come out in some areas as well.
I'm at 3,200 feet north of Asheville off Parkway. In bloom cherries, red buds, tulips, some daffodils, azaela, apples, bloodroot (wild) leaves are coming out on many trees. Beautiful now but way to early seems very strange. Also turkeys are courting they seem to be everywhere.
Location: Just transplanted to FL from the N GA mountains
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It is strange this year!! I'm about 15 miles from Murphy.. and I've got new growth on my rose bushes already! I don't think they ever did get completely dormant this year.....
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