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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAmazing what the warm weather is causing in Raleigh - everything has opened at once!
Azaleas, daffodils, tulips, lilacs, Redbud, flowering cherry and crabapple trees, magnolias, Dogwood, forsythia, Spirea, spring perennials (solomon's seal, celadine poppy, epimedium), violas and pansies - just an absolute riot of color - all quite early, and all covered in a thick haze of yellow green pine pollen.
I do wonder how badly we will bake this summer!
Pool Hall Ace
(5,849 posts)Good thing generic Zyrtec is available at Dollar Tree, or I'd really be suffering!
Digit
(6,163 posts)Even I am sneezing and I don't have allergies!
..............or at least I didn't have allergies BEFORE Pollenmageddon.
auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)I just went to Umstead Park during my lunch break and my shoes are now yellow. It's unreal.
The news last night had a story about it. They said that things that normally start blooming right now are blooming, and things that normally wait a little later in the Spring when it's warmer are blooming too, due to the higher than normal temperatures. That's why there's so much of the yellow crud.
Now, if only the fish would start biting.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Shaping up to be a scorcher...
Phentex
(16,334 posts)the roses are amazing already. The tulips were blooming two weeks ago!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Trees are budding, plants are starting to bloom and my allergies are going nuts. What a wacky year.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)emilyg
(22,742 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)I love the look of blooming flowers!
Our forsythia(sp?) are blooming now.
Moondog
(4,833 posts)BelleCarolinaPeridot
(9,609 posts)I awed in joy over the dogwood trees in full bloom.