Well,I'm in Southwest Michigan and figured my K.Cherry tree was shot this year for its great blooms.The buds have all turned brown.GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Last year our dwarf Peach tree had more peaches than we knew what to do with.I had to prop the branches up with homemade Y shaped wooden props to handle the load!In 2005 I had to cover it only at night with a tarp when it got briefly cold overnite when budding.This year the peach tree was just barely starting to bud before this seemingly longer than usual cold spell,I'm hoping it'll still produce a decent batch of peaches,at least enough for me,the wife and the grandkid to munch on for a few weeks.

Lone

"I'm hoping it'll still produce a decent batch of peaches,at least enough for me,the wife and the grandkid to munch on for a few weeks"

If it does, you'll be able to sell them for a king's ransome further south!

Resin

Yeah. The concensus is that the peach crop is GONE here - and there are a bunch of peach orchards in the area. I only hope that it doesn't mean a bunch of discouraged growers selling out to developers, of whom we have too many!! The strawberry season is probably shortened, and they aren't sure about the apples yet.

A light freeze is one thing, but we got a light frost Thurs., a heavy freeze on Friday, temps of 27F on Sat., a light frost last night, and another frost is forecast for tonight as well. Daytimes varied from the 40's to the 50's. One night of cold/frost is normal, but 4-5 nights of it is NOT good, especially since we had about 2 weeks of record warmth - 70's and 80's - in the week/10 days before! I am hoping all the tender new growth on so many trees and shrubs will leaf out again...., they should be OK, but it's worrisome until they do.

dibbit, that is just about the same thing which happened here. fortunately for us the ornamental pears and early ornamental cherry and peaches just finished blooming and leafing out about a week prior to the hard freeze hitting.

I am concerned about the redbuds though, since they flowered already and were pretty much leafed out by the time the hard freeze hit, can they still re-leaf without re-flowering?

can they still re-leaf without re-flowering?

Yes.

Our peaches here are probably goners as well.

I think most of the peach crops survived okay in the southern half of AL, but I'm not so sure about the northern half of the state though.

Hairmetal- I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I think you are just a bit overly pessimistic... I'm from Ohio and My parents actually still live in the Cleveland/Akron area and have an extensive plant collection. I just got back from a week down there, and though it was cold, yes very cold, You all were not far enough along as people were in the southern USA or for that matter Cincinnati to do much damage... Granted your blooming forsythia, early magnolias, flowering cherries and flowering pears are toast, they will be okay and leaf out. And you can probably forget about blooms from your hydrangeas unless you have the Oakleaf, Endless Summer or one blooming from new wood...But From what I could see in my parents garden and from what they are reporting... your peaches, apples, dogwoods, redbuds, styrax, saucer magnolias,azaleas were still in tight bud. They will bloom as soon as it does warm up... Your japanese maples and lilacs might have suffered some damage, but they will be okay and the maples will releaf and I bet even your lilacs will be fine and bloom. My mother said the elongated buds on all her large lilacs looked fine. Even up here we have some minor damage to early things from the cold... I think you all lucked out unlike your neighbors in Cincy and south... You will definitely be eating apples and peaches from your trees in NE Ohio this year...