Fruit on the tree during spring bloom stops the growth of flowering shoots.
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For example, spring-blooming plants like spireas and azaleas should be pruned after they bloom.
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Between mid-August and mid-September, the park offers an accessible, southern look at the spring wildflower bloom, which carpets the country's western expanses.
On either side of the river, however, running down the valley, there is a narrow strip of wheat fields and poppy fields, and for several weeks in the spring the poppies bloom: lovely, open-petalled white, pink, red, and magenta blossoms, the darker colors indicating the ones with the most opium.
Come mid-April, spring is in full bloom in Augusta, so you can expect temps to hover around the high 70s or low 80s, though mornings and evenings are a bit chillier with lows in the 50s.