Confused Flowers: The Madness of Global Warming

Around the first of January I took this pic of buds forming on the large rhododendron bush in my backyard.




And just last week, I took this picture of the daffodils coming up in my front yard.




Didn't notice this activity last year, but I'm fairly sure this winter, so far, has been much warmer than last. Still, it is a weird and disturbing site to see flowers becoming active in January in central New York.

I'm told the daffodils will probably be okay come spring because their blooms are underground. The rhododendrons I'm not too sure about. Don't expect too much from them this spring.

JB