"limey" wrote in message
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My Rose of Sharon started to bloom yesterday. That seems early to me.

Picked our very first tomatoes of the season this morning. That seems
early, too, but I'm not complaining.

I'm in Maryland, zone 7.

Dora

I noticed a few blooming here in Cincinnati today - zone 6. Mine have buds,
but no color yet. The cicadas did a number on it some of the branches have
broken. I'm afraid that the entire yard will be filled with grotesquely
disfigured shrubs by fall.