Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Spring is on its way, 1 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
I'll sure be glad when Spring finally arrives. This has been an exceptionally cold winter here in Kansas City, MO. It wasn't a good year to experiment with some marginally hardy plants that I planted late last year. Namely a Red-Tipped Photinia and 3 Crape Myrtles, I'll be surprised if they are alive. I planted them on the South side of my mobile home and mulched them, so maybe they will just die back. I still have a couple hundred plants in pots outside, I expect many of them to be expired now as well. Though what I have left made it thru previous Winters, so they may have done better than that, only time will tell.
Pretty soon the plants wll be getting buds and I can see what made it and what didn't.
On a side note, Missouri's daylight savings time has been moved way up, by 3 weeks or so, so thats a good thing anyway. I've also avoided falling on the ice and busting my you know what this year.
Will