A bit early, I know... This morning : Acer "discolor" is not a valid name apparently. More pics just for the fun :
Here we saw the very first day with positive temperatures this year. Although this was just barely +0.2°C. 60 days with only negative temperatures in the row isn't so common even in my country. Hooray, the spring is coming! :)
Ha! we only hit 19C, but the sun was brilliant. Nicest day this year so far. Still, it's disconcerting to see so much leafing out this early in March. It feels like around 3 weeks ahead of the "new normal", in spite of the 3 weeks of cold in December/Jan. The immense amount of rain, 290 mm here, doesn't seem to have had much effect. The soil isn't saturated (except here and there, or where it's clay), and the stream is running normally. These pictures mostly start from around 20/2. Everything starting to move very quickly, it seems. Rhododendron mucronulatum, A. sinopurpurasens, A. japonicum, A. shenkanense, A. aff campbellii, A buergerianum ssp. formosanum, A. tartaricum ssp. ginalla 'Yama-zakura', A. opalus (by now in gorgeous full bloom), Acer Dissectum Group, Acer kawakamii x 2, A. serrulatum, A. buergerianum from Angyo weeping (some weep, this one maybe not), Acer palmatum, A. mandshuricum, A. aff. campbellii (bought as heptaphlebium, which it isn't), Acer rubescens, Linearilobum Group, A. amplum ssp. caudatifolium, A. buergerianum ssp. formosanum (a week or so after the first pic). Cheers, -E
