Hi, Ed, "Normal"? Nature makes no promise to be normal. While it's not possible to be absolutely certain of the reason, but we can offer a few ideas:
• The plant might have gottten Botrytis blight, or another fungus from too much water. We can't explain its recovery unless—maybe—the frost killed/eliminated the fungus.
• The plant may have needed watering and discarded its buds as a result.
• Pruning some bloomers, like the shasta daisy, after the first bloom, sets the plant up for a possible second bloom. The frost may have affected that change, so the plant bloomed again.
Perhaps a reader has another (better?) idea?
Hi, Ed, "Normal"? Nature makes no promise to be normal. While it's not possible to be absolutely certain of the reason, but we can offer a few ideas:
• The plant might have gottten Botrytis blight, or another fungus from too much water. We can't explain its recovery unless—maybe—the frost killed/eliminated the fungus.
• The plant may have needed watering and discarded its buds as a result.
• Pruning some bloomers, like the shasta daisy, after the first bloom, sets the plant up for a possible second bloom. The frost may have affected that change, so the plant bloomed again.
Perhaps a reader has another (better?) idea?