Of interest. I was researching my Zone 6b out a little further and I am only about 15 miles or so from Zone 7a I know that I live at a higher elevation than that area but it may give me a bit of an edge over other people in the 6b Zone. I may be able to push the limit on Zone 7a a little What say you all? Or at least I am hoping…
The area that is 7a is at an elevation of 1,096′ and the town I live in is at 1,883′ . So that is quite a bit different and probably the reason for the zone change. I do know that we are a few degrees cooler in the winter than they are as well.
I thought I had focused in better on the flower but once I zoomed in to look at it I hadn’t… I was already gone before checking the pics
Does anyone know what kind of bush this is? They really don’t know what it is but it has been there for many years and I have even taken sprouts of it to my house and started one of these as well
Kind of looks like flowering quince to me, but hard to tell with the focus issue. You might try googling flowering quince and see if they look like the flowers you saw. I don’t know if they sold as much anymore, but they used to be quite popular so if it is an older planting that might make it more likely.
I checked some of my peaches at the house today. Surecrop is at Quarter-Inch Green
(Calyx Red) using the Critical Temperatures for Frost Damage on Fruit Trees as a guide. I am still a ways out from bloom but I am expecting to be at partial bloom by the 20th, beating my record of February 27th last year. In prior years I have had blooms start as late as April … This is way too early but last year my peaches survived and I had my best crop ever. It will be interesting to see how the crop does this year with an earlier bloom.
I haven’t checked my trees on my father’s farm but he said some were at the same stage, Dixie Red and Red Chief which are early bloomers. I am looking at a low of 19 on Friday so it will be interesting to see how the early blooming peaches do.
In other news, we have been getting unreal amounts of rain and last Wednesday and Thursday we had flooding in many areas close by though Oh and we got about 4 inches of snow this past Friday
Suppose to rain lots more this week, so we have that going right now as well…
Yes, from Harlan KY through Knoxville, TN and Huntsville, AL and Jackson, MS…………by the end of the week, half a normal year’s rainfall will have fallen!
(Hopefully that doesn’t mean the next 10 months only get half of normal—but it probably does, as long range looks like very dry and hot mid summer, unless tropical systems should move in from the Gulf. We’ve had excess rainfall two years in a row in Kentucky. Feb of 2019 set a monthly record I believe in numerous places. Feb. of 2020 if giving the record a run for it’s money.)
Same here with the record amounts of rainfalll in both where I live (Monterey, TN) and were I work daily (Nashville, TN). Hopefully it isn’t to dry this year but you just never really know with the weather…
I know that I live at a higher elevation than that area but it may give me a bit of an edge over other people in the 6b Zone. I may be able to push the limit on Zone 7a a little 
What say you all? Or at least I am hoping… 
