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A redbud tree (cercis spp.) blooms during springtime on the UGA Griffin Campus CAES News
Spring start
Spring across most of Georgia started cooler and drier than normal, forcing flowering plants and trees to bud a week to two weeks later than usual.
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Pond turnover
Spring weather signals all kinds of changes in nature. Trees sprout leaves. Plants bloom. But weather that brings nature back to life can also kill the fish in ponds.
Children eat mangoes and stare at UGA agricultural experts working in a field near Los Palis, Haiti, March 16. CAES News
Haiti agriculture
In the shadow of a rundown block building in Los Palis, Haiti, children wearing tattered clothes bit into half-ripened mangoes they picked from the ground and wondered about the strange men toiling around in the field.
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Wicked winter
This winter was unusually cold and wet across Georgia, causing the heating demand for buildings to soar.
A syrphid fly hovers over a swamp sunflower CAES News
Cold, wet, hot and dry spring
Georgia’s spring weather this year will be the tale of two seasons: The most likely scenario is cooler and wetter than normal early on, becoming hotter and drier leading into summer.
Butterfly Weed is a native herbaceous perennial that attracts butterflies like magnets with its florescent orange blooms. CAES News
Spring gardening
Welcome to the 35th annual Spring Garden Packet from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Written by CAES faculty, editors and graduate and undergraduate students, these articles are provided to help you with timely, valuable statewide gardening information.
Photo of a rain garden taken by North Carolina Cooperative Extension personnel. CAES News
It's raining, it's pouring
It’s raining in Georgia, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to stop. Instead of the drought levels and watering restrictions of years past, Georgians are now dealing with a yard-flooding abundance of rainfall.
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El Niño dominates
An El Niño winter continued to dominate Georgia in January, bringing cold, rainy weather to much of the state.
Vidalia Onions are planted in Candler County Nov. 1, 2005. CAES News
Soggy onions
Georgia Vidalia Onion growers are ready for Mother Nature to turn off the tap. Record rainfall has dampened their crop, prevented them from getting into fields to take care of it and put it behind in development, says a University of Georgia onion expert.
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Camp EcoAdventure set for April
Rock Eagle 4-H Center will present Camp EcoAdventure day camp April 5-9 for first through fifth graders.