{"id":13150,"date":"2024-02-10T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=13150"},"modified":"2024-02-10T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T20:45:26","slug":"early-spring-despite-a-hard-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/10\/early-spring-despite-a-hard-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Spring Despite a Hard Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seattle experienced multiple days in a row in January below 20 degrees Fahrenheit. It seemed like this would stall out the anxious spring growers like the crocus, tulips, and hyacinths in the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the freeze, I moved the iris and crocus bulbs that I am forcing in pots to the greenhouse. I saved them from freezing solid, but then the greenhouse heated up in the sun and we experienced a spell of warm weather. Normally, I would move the pots in the house to force them one pot at a time, but the cold\/hot\/warm treatment caused them all to bloom at once when I moved them out to the shelves again! The crocus did not make it\u2013rats ate them all in the greenhouse except the one pot I have already moved into the house! But the iris flowers are spectacular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bulbs in the memory garden are also blooming beautifully with the unseasonably warm weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year, the Veltheimia bracteata in the greenhouse failed to bloom for the first time in several years. But I noticed, way back in the greenhouse, that there is a spike coming this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seattle experienced multiple days in a row in January below 20 degrees Fahrenheit. It seemed like this would stall out the anxious spring growers like the crocus, tulips, and hyacinths in the garden. During the freeze, I moved the iris and crocus bulbs that I am forcing in pots to the greenhouse. I saved them … Continue reading Early Spring Despite a Hard Freeze<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13170,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions\/13170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}