This early heat wave in Oregon is burning the tender leaves right off my vine maples.

[TomDaisy]

It has been a late spring. The leaves just came out about 7 days ago on the vine maples (always last to leaf out).
The leaves are tiny and tender and they just can't stand up to 90 degrees. They are crispy brown and dead. And we have been running irrigation twice a day.

Same for my hydrangeas that are exposed to the sun. Crispy brown leaves on the edges.

Also tiny, immature seeds are raining down like a blizzard from the large trees. I don't remember this happening before.


Now I hate this because I work very hard to make the yard look nice. But I suspect the repercussions on plant growth and seedlings for the rest of the year are going to be significant. Including for farms.

[CentralMass]

1. It's still 82 at 9pm in Sherwood.

[2naSalit]

2. The trees...

Throwing seeds might be them trying to get their reproductive event over with trying to give their offspring a chance. Some plants do that, it's like they smell an early death for themselves so, since survival of the species is everybody's business, they cast their seeds as early as they can to put them out there maybe carried by the wind.

That's my guess, could be way off.