What to do if, due to an abnormally warm winter, the primroses “woke up” earlier than expected
Sometimes, due to excessively warm weather outside, tulips, crocuses, muscari and other primroses may mistakenly decide that spring has arrived.
An expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh told what to do in this case so as not to freeze your first flowers.
What you definitely shouldn't do is panic. First, you need to understand why spring flowers appeared above the ground earlier than they should.
Warm weather awakens the bulbs from their winter sleep, and the plants decide to put out leaves to “scout out” the situation.
This is how flowers receive information about daylight hours, temperature, humidity and other important factors.
The leaves that have reached a height of 3-5 cm will, of course, freeze, but new ones will appear in their place in the spring.
But if their size has reached 8-10 cm, things are bad - the primroses can freeze badly, and then you should not expect flowering. However, they will have time to recover by next year and will certainly delight you with fragrant and bright flowers.
If you see primroses that have awakened prematurely, do not rush to cover them. The best solution is to do nothing, because the abnormal heat will either be replaced by a decrease in temperature, and the plants will fall asleep again, or it will persist, moving into spring, and the flowers will continue to grow.
