Magnolia in Flower
Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008The magnolia brightens my life every March with its lovely Spring flowers.
Why is it blooming again, in August? How did it flower twice in one year?
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Previously: Spring
Stumble it!
August 14th, 2008
$deity bless global warming.
London may soon flood; tsunamis and other acts of the Mad-One may kill millions; Tuvalu may soon be under water, making u.tv need to rethink their domain name, but at least we can have tomatoes and magnolias bloom later in the year.
/me gets out the deck chair and cocktails and awaits the end.
August 14th, 2008
It’s disturbing for me. Most trees came in to bud in November or December last year because it was so mild. Thankfully, they stopped at a point and stayed dormant until the spring
August 14th, 2008
It must be the Limerick air!
August 14th, 2008
A portent of doom?
There is a story in last year’s Telegraph (17/08/2007) of a Magnolia flowering three times!
August 14th, 2008
my sunflowers tried and tried and barely blossomed. Now the few that did are dying off but most of them haven’t even opened. They were in the sunniest spot in the garden, but unfortunately they received little sun, and lots of wind and rain. My blackcurrant bushes produced a grand total of absolutely no blackcurrants this year. Nothing. Zilch. Every year I get about 15/20lbs of fruit from them. This year they are bald. Not one single blackcurrant. And the dogs are howling. I don’t know what’s going on.
August 14th, 2008
Mother Nature is indeed a strange creature, especially since Sister Climate change seems to be over watering the planet far too often for my liking.
August 14th, 2008
kae verens — I hope you have a crate of beer too. Useful when the end is nigh.
Al — This is a bit different though. I’m baffled. The scientists are baffled. My lawyer is baffled.
Mary — The Limerick air has consisted mostly of water for the last month.
Andrew — The magnolia blossom is usually like a short and beautiful romance. To be savoured in the anticipation and the remembrance.
Gilly — That’s dreadful. I had the same thing with sunflowers, but the problem turned out to be slugs.
Bollix — I agree. Too much water means not enough room for liquor.
August 14th, 2008
I think Shakespeare wrote about it in one of his spooky plays. When Spring sprinkles its magnolian bloom in the time of the Aug, then must thou hie to get some Dulux in a bolder colour Something like that.
August 14th, 2008
That’s right Sami. Old Shakey said exactly that.
And some years latter, JJ Cale said “Magnolia you sweet thing, you’re driving me mad”.
August 16th, 2008
Our magnolia is flowering for a second time this year - in Cheshire. It is the tulip tree type of magnolia and has been known to us for 17 years and has never done this before. I think it may be that it flowers twice a year in Japan or wherever it comes from, but is near the edge of its range here. It seems happy rather than confused.
More bizarrely, my Easter cactus has just formed buds outside. It flowered indoors at Easter in a proper manner. I have had it 20 years and it has never done anything like this before. I always stick it outside for the summer so that I don’t have to remember to look after it.
August 16th, 2008
But why? Is it all the rain?