Pretty in pink
Published 4:37 pm Monday, April 19, 2021
A giant evergreen tree provides a background for these pink dogwood blossoms on Bob and Diane Early's farm on Colby Road. (Photo by Randy Patrick)
These pink dogwood blooms are from the home of Jeannette Patrick on Colby Road.
Redbuds cover a hillside above the Iroquois Hunt Club on Grimes Mill Road. The building, once an old grist mill with thick stone walls, is now the property of the clubhouse for enthusiasts of the equestrian sport of "riding to hounds." (Photo by Randy Patrick)
Light spring green and gray limestone provide a soft contrast to the pink hue of redbud blooms along a dry stone fence along a country road in southwestern Clark County. (Photo by Randy Patrick)
A dogwood in full bloom frames an old country church on Waterworks Road. (Photo by Randy Patrick)
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Dogwood winter in Kentucky
PHOTOS BY RANDY PATRICK
About the time April was in full bloom with pink and white dogwood trees, redbud and cherry trees and tulips and daffodils, Kentucky was hit this past week by a hard frost.
Plants that had already flowered weathered the cold snap well, though.
According to the Farmer’s Almanac, like Indian summer, a period of unseasonable warmth in autumn, the little winters, including redbud winter in early April and dogwood winter in the middle of the month, were terms farmers came up with to keep track of the planting season. They would sometimes wait until after the dogwoods bloomed to plant crops in case there is a dogwood winter.
Forecasters say the cold weather may not be over yet. While it was sunny and in the 60s Monday, the low temperature Tuesday and Wednesday is supposed to be 30 degrees.
And next month, there is the possibility of a blackberry winter.
About Randy Patrick
Randy Patrick is a reporter for Bluegrass Newsmedia, which includes The Jessamine Journal. He may be reached at 859-759-0015 or by email at randy.patrick@bluegrassnewsmedia.com.
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