Early Budding!

It has been so abnormally warm and wet the last few weeks that some plants around the golf course have been fooled into thinking it is Spring already.  These magnolias pictured below are growing between 8 green and 11 white tee box.  These trees are usually some of the earliest bloomers on the course, but we usually see them bloom around the first of March on a typical year.  The pictures were taken on New Years Eve, and you can see how many flowers are already out and looking pretty.  Just another sign that this year is an odd one for weather, and we will more than likely see interesting reactions from the different plants as the next few months pass!