I would be really sad to see my mist flowers blooming already. They are such a pleasure in oct/nov usually. I love my salvias that go strong at different times depending on the bush all summer after cutting back. It just seems really early for that. I guess I better get to it on the ones that are about done. I already did half of them about a month ago.
My lantanas never froze and neither did the esperanza so they are already large and blooming their hearts out. I was lazy this winter and had not cut things like that to the ground like I normally do. They started sprouting new leaves in February so I left them as an experiment. The humming birds have increased in such dramatic numbers over the past few years I want to make sure there is something for them later. We even had one with an orange belly over winter here. I had never seen that one before. She was feeding on the tobacco trees.
My plumerias are doing their normal infuriatingly slow pace to do much of anything. They never really look full and lush until mid May sometimes June. I am considering selling my really huge ones. They are just a lot of work for looking like ugly sticks seven months out of the year. I say that every year. Then they leaf out and bloom and I love 'em again.
