Stretch of unseasonably warm weather causing some surprising blossoms | Lehigh Valley Nature Watch

It was so warm final Thursday that it felt extra like April than mid-December. As anticipated, nevertheless, the weather has now turn out to be colder and extra seasonable.

One current warm day once I drove into city, I handed a forsythia shrub utterly coated with yellow blossoms. Forsythias bloom on previous wooden, not new progress, and the warm weather precipitated its blossoms to open. And on that very same day, a trumpet honeysuckle bush in our entrance yard was sporting crimson blossoms though its leaves had been turning yellow and falling.

That native honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, was dwelling as much as its organic designation. Lonicera, crops named after a German botanist of the 1500s, is its genus title and sempervirens means everblooming. But usually round right here that simply occurs in warm weather, not proper till Christmas.