I drove #2 son to his Orthodontist appointment after school today. I am pulling into the parking lot and the skies opened up. It's.....It's.....SNOWING!!!
April 27th and I am being pelted by little tiny snowbally things as well as big chunky white flakes!
Oh.
My.
Word.
I thought the receptionist was going to crap her pants when I came in and told her it was snowing....seriously, she freaked out a little!
And it's suppose to hit 75 here this weekend......
Remember my lemon magnolia tree that bloomed a tad early?
Here's what happened to my little tree after 3 nights of frost last week.....
*sigh* Why oh why didn't the leaves send a memo to the blooms that it was too too early to open?
I also have a mystery going on in my garden bed behind the deck. I planted a mix of salad green seeds last spring.....arugula, rocket, leaf lettuces, etc. This plant was among the things that sprouted up. At first I thought it was curly leaf parsley or something. It took awhile to get growing but the leaf thickness and texture made it look more like something that was not a salad green, but more like a root vegetable plant or the leaves on a fall veggie plant, like a winter squash or something in the cabbage family. So I didn't pick it and let the plant grow but by winter we still didn't see any veggie....nothing was 'heading' in the center, etc. so I just left it to die over the winter.
But it didn't die....the plant survived the winter and is now growing like a son-of-a-gun!
Can anyone ID this plant for me? It's got thick leathery leaves with curly edges and a purpley/pink spine. 2 of these plants took root in with the salad greens last spring.
If it's good eatin' I'll let it continue to grow....if it's just a weed that's not consumable it's getting plowed under this weekend....unless it snows again on Sunday after it hits 75 on Saturday. ack!
Sluggy