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Did we fall asleep and not wake up until spring?
By adamg on Sun, 12/13/2015 - 2:58pm
Boston snapped these cherry blossoms on Boston Common today.
Ed. note: A lot less glamorous, but down the street from us, somebody's yard is full of dandelions.
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Autumn flowering cherry trees
On the Reddit thread on the same topic, someone pointed out that this is a particular species of cherry tree called Autumn flowering cherry trees that periodically blooms during patches of warmer temperatures during the autumn/winter. A fall bloom doesn't impact the trees' ability to bloom again in the springtime.
Apparently these trees are in bloom on the national mall in DC as well....
http://wtop.com/dc/2015/12/washingtons-cherry-trees-bloom-in-heat-wave/
Public Garden
That looks like the corner of Arlington & Boylston. Seems the original tweet mislabeled the location. Nice pic in any case.
Springtime?
The clover and jonquils are growing in my yard.
Also supposedly a rhodendron in bloom...
... at the Arnold Arboretum.
As I was raking up the last
As I was raking up the last of the fall leaves yesterday, I saw that the irises are starting to grow and there were green buds on the lilac bush.
Roses
I've also seen a lot of rose bushes that are still blooming. Hurray global warming!
Yup, lots of them in the
Yup, lots of them in the North End, Columbus Park/Rose Kennedy garden in particular
Glamorous dandelions can be found....
....only in the old Bloom County comic strip, with one of the characters doing a belly flop onto a patch of them.