What’s Blooming

Ah, Spring, especially in Georgia. The answer is obviously everything. How long does the allergy season last in Georgia?

The answer is obviously from January to December according to Dr. David Lang, allergist-immunologist. No need to advise Jasper County residents, we see the pollen on everything outside and even on the windowsills of closed windows.

We love to see our beautiful azaleas, dogwood trees, blackberry bushes, magnolias, hydrangeas, gardenias blooming their heads off, but it comes with a price for allergy pills, nose spray, and tissues.

There are virtually hundreds of other pollen producers that are out there right now. We blame the pine trees but according to the internet and it is always right, their spores are too large to cause our allergy miseries.

What we need is a nice steady rain to wash these miseries away, temporarily anyway.

Weather for the next 10 days looks beautiful with some chances for rain starting in a couple of days. Better hurry if we are to get our April showers that bring May flowers.

Put out your hummingbird feeders to bring them to your house. There are an estimated 360 species of them, weighing less than a dime, can fly up to 61 miles per hour, they visit up to 100 flowers per day, only bird that can fly backwards, if a hummingbird hovers in front of you or circles above you, check the feeder to see if it is empty, smart little devils they are.

Happy Spring, Monticello.