The unseasonably warm temperatures mean buds and blossoms, although we all know in northern Michigan, frost danger has not retreated from the realm of possibility yet. Farmers are trying to balance the weather with their needs.
Excerpt: Take a drive south from Petoskey on U.S. 31, through Charlevoix and into Atwood: you're guaranteed, today, to see the fuzz of blossoms on pussy willows, birches and cottonwood trees -- a precursor to leaves.
Lilacs, too, are already showing green buds.
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Source: Daily American
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