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Are your plants ahead of schedule in 2023?

 
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Hi friends!  This question is mostly for North American gardeners, since that is where I’m at, but answers from others also welcome!

Are you seeing plants (wild and cultivated) emerging/sprouting/breaking dormancy earlier than usual this year?  I was looking at the calendar I kept last year (2022) and it looks like most everything is 10-14 earlier than last year. That goes for native and non-native plants— pawpaws and plums and bloodroot and daffodils and everything in between.

 
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My ecosystem, mountain valley northeast of the Great Salt Lake, procrastinates 6 weeks compared to average. (We received twice the average amount of snowcover during the winter).

 
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Many states in the eastern, southern and part of Midwest of U.S. have spring arriving weeks early this year. Same with my place but the lat frost date was later than average and we are still in upper 30s at night these days. That really affected my gardening: the cool season leafy crops bolted when they were just two inches tall but on the other hand, I am holding the majority of warm season veggies in pots since night time temperature is still low.  As for native plants, they are all doing fine.
 
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I live in N California and would say is the opposite here. We are a good 6 maybe even 8 weeks behind.  We have had record breaking cool weather, and the latest frost I remember.
 
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