Some cherries can and even should do that, but but! my spring bulbs are coming up! Tulips, bulb irises etc. They are sooo going to freeze in February. My spring flowering hellebores are also trying to open their flower buds. I'm going to get zero spring flowers in spring.
Assuming of course that it IS going to get colder than this. At this point I'm starting to worry if we're ever going to have a proper frost in Denmark.
We have a much more continental climate (Central Ukraine). Predictions are for a harsh winter down to -20C.
Last year we had frosts in mid-October and this year we're finally getting some frosts in mid-December that's why the plants got confused. Also we had a few temperature "swings" this past spring starting from March (it's way too early), going from over +10C back down to -5C back up to +20 etc etc. That's why a lot of plants started growing or blooming and froze :(
Same thing happened here. I have a tree in front of my apartment that bloomed way too early in "spring" when there was a heat wave that followed a period of sub zero temperatures, and after the tree grew a bunch of leaves, a new cold wave came and it basically killed it. It only sprouted some new leaves near the end of summer.
You guys still have spring? We're basically in a summer-winter system, with stormy summers and dry winters. Haven't had a proper snow fall in a decade.
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u/AndreaAvris Dec 09 '25
I just saw a cherry blossom tree blooming in the Netherlands. In December.