Sara Begg, Executive Editor
Our complete lack of winter here in Boston meant that three weeks ago crocuses were pushing their noses up, the buds of flowering quince, magnolias, cherries, and forsythia began to swell, and frankly I think most of us had begun to give up on winter. In some ways it was nice to experience the type of winter that might be more common in South Carolina, but mostly , I felt cheated and more than a little unsettled. The spring catalogs have started to arrive, but how could I be "ready" for spring when winter hadn't even arrived.But that all changed at the beginning of last week and continued since then. In fact, last Friday was one of the coldest days I've experienced in a while (we hit a low of 3 degrees F) and I've definitely lost the Melianthus major I'd left out to get lightly "zapped" by the cold before moving it to the basement for a spell of dormancy, and ditto for the farfugia I'd been drooling over all summer. I'm going to move them downstairs now and see how they do. My guess is that they will have entered what I like to call permanent dormancy. Oh well, more room for new plants when spring comes. And frankly, now that winter's finally here, I'm ready to start dreaming of spring.
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Friday, January 26, 2007 2:51:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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