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I'm just curious if anyone can explain this. I've had spring flowering shrubs send out a very few flowers later in the season before, but my Weigela has almost completely rebloomed. It didn't do this last summer, our first year in this house. Also some Columbine and some Myosotis I planted this spring are doing the same. They all started doing this at the end of an unusually long, hot dry spell in July and now the temperatures have gotten more normal again they're going great guns. I don't recall the flowers' tags saying anything about a second bloom. Of course I'm happy, just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing, or knows why this would happen.
I've had weigelia do that before, and in fact my wine and roses does have flower buds on it.. so looks like that will happen with mine this year as well.
I can't get columbine to survive even one season, let alone come back the next (just have no good conditions for it!) .. so can't comment on that.
Every once and a while I've had an odd lilac fall burst - just one or two pannicles.
The weather may be confusing the plants. They will often flower, leaf out, or bloom to ensure reproduction for the next year. It may take more than a year to happen. We had it a few years ago with the trees hit in a terrible snowstorm when all leaves were still on. Branches 10 feet long snapped off like little twigs -- some towns here lost tons of mature trees. Can't even remember how much time we spent removing broken branches with saws. However, we had incredible growth the second year after; the maples produced pods twice and the locusts did as well. Flowers will do the same.
Funny you should post this thread. I had a post a while back about my lantana's dying and couldn't figure out the problem since they love the heat so I gave up on them. They were "dead" for over 2 months and now, after intense heat (100 degrees and higher for over 45 days) and no rain, they are greening up and producing buds again! It makes no sense to me whatsoever but I am not going to complain.
I think intense heat can be just as much of a "dead season" for some plants as winter. So, they "hybernate" then and come back once the weather is bearable again!
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