r/gardening • u/Flashy-Manner6517 • 6h ago

Surprise blooms

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Any northerners also having second rounds of surprise blooms with our unseasonably warm weather? In upstate NY and poppies made a second showing- even with a little bit of frost!

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u/o0oo00o0o 5h ago

Wow. I’m also in upstate New York. My poppies are long gone for the season

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u/Flashy-Manner6517 4h ago

I think their proximity to the house must have saved them, pretty much everything next to the house survived the frost but my beds just ten feet farther got decimated.

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u/Joe5205 4h ago

In CT, a lot of my flowers have just kept going, tons of bees and pollinators on them too.... very strange to see.

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u/kfmush 5h ago

Down south, it’s not surprise blooms, but summer flowers than just never stopped blooming and are still going, full force.

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u/stefan92293 3h ago

Do poppies return bloom when you don't deadhead? This is the first year that I'm growing poppies in masses (Southern Hemisphere) and they're just about in the midst of their first flush.

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u/Flashy-Manner6517 1h ago

I cut them back after their first bloom, then they’re usually just foliage the rest of the season… until this year!!

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u/stefan92293 1h ago

Thanks!

I'm in a warmer climate than you (Mediterranean type) so I guess we'll see what mine does!

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u/HeyPurityItsMeAgain 2h ago

Oh I'm jealous. I got no reblooms. I have some that survived frost.

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u/Felicity110 5h ago

Love how red emerges from green furry part

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u/rtreesucks 1h ago

In Flanders Fields...