Hee hee hee. Enjoy the warm weather then!!!

I'm jealous..it's not warm here..we have a forecast for Fri? Sat? and the overnight low is 9°..brrr..

Only 2 snowfalls this year. And the only one that would have been concerning was the out of the blue nor-easter with the wet cane breaking snow . And that's it. I've yet to take out the snowblower out at all and just hand shoveled the walkway once. Can't complain. Used to love the snow. As I get old, pffft, who cares about that white stuff ;-)

only one significant snowfall and it was just 5-6 inches..we've used the blower 3 times..2 times we could've skipped it but we're retired and my husband wanted to.."brown" winters (little snow) with cold temperatures are not good for plants are they?..but what can we do?..moving sounds good sometimes Lol..

NW. The self designated ~pot mover~ might be able to take a break ;-)

Who knows. Maybe the weather pattern is the ~new norm~. Over the years, the frequency has been changing.

Lol..my "pot mover" has a little time to rest before I start giving him directions haha..I like it when winter is not absolutely freezing but I know freeze-thaw-freeze-thaw is not good for the plants..I live on edge until the middle of May..still seems far off..

The circle cycle never stops.

I regret doing it so early. I ended mulching some back a bit to protect some of the new green I spied at the base. The younger/thinner/newer canes were just not liking the wet overwintering material. Some were m_u_s_h when I uncovered them.

so the choices are new mushy canes or in my case old dead canes..I don't care for either choice Lol..

final tally on dewinterization finished today. You know it's been a mild and wet winter when you find bottom part's of the canes have started rooting into the winter mulch !

I haven't looked at mine..our winter was brutal..I'm sure I'll be cutting off dead canes..

Haven't been on here in a while due to winter hibernation..... LOL. Anyways, the weather where I live is now starting to warm up so i'm thinking about how to go about winter protection removal. I'm still new to this so bear with me.

I'm thinking about removing the winter protection by this weekend. My local weather by then will be averaging in the 50's during the day and high 30's at night.

I know a frost and or temps in the mid 20s and below are considered the danger zone for damaging buds. If I do proceed with dewinterizing them, I'm planning on keeping the stakes in the ground and have the burlap readily available in case we have a frost warning or cold temps. I'll throw them over the plants to create a tent like structure. What do you guys think? Or should I just wait another month till the middle of April? Zone 6 in Mass as an FYI.

Billy if you live the Boston area or West Ma stay put till mid April

Hey hyed! I'm west of Boston by 30-45 mins. I'll stay put till mid April then!. Thanks for chiming in.

I agree too. Down here, on Sunday, I started planting some salvias that were potted from last year and my fingers got awfully cold digging and messing around with the still very cold soil in shady areas. Brrrrr.... Too early although our lows are now safely above the 30s.

So you do not have to mess around with the possibility of late frosts zapping the leaves and making the plants look awful, also consider removing the winter protection either on your average date of last frost or a few weeks afterwards. But feel free to adjust the date every year based on the peculiarities of each year's weather...

It's normal. Like Luis said, leave your protection on until your end frost date has past.