Overlap Weeks

Mild winters sometimes grant us a gift in Zone 8: crazy weeks where flowers from the past season refuse to die and the blossoms of next season jump out to accompany them in their slow expiry. It is not happening in Week 2008/49, but we hope for an early spring.

Overlap Weeks

2006/49: The start of the 2006-2007 winter has been remarkably mild: grass sown in week 46 has germinated and is about one centimetre high, the Prunus autumnalis, although only 60 cm high, is in full blossom, and Katharina Stamm has a very late aster with beautiful flowers on it. The azaleas are budding, and so are the hydrangeas. Even the Eschscholzia is shooting forth anew like a perennial and is about 10 cm high and beautifully green.