If you need a shot of color to brighten up your midwinter, now is the time to start experimenting with cuttings of early flowering plants, like willow and dogwood, aspen, and even red maple. If you cleanly cut a few young shoots, you may be able to coax these species into flowering with warm indoor temperatures in a jar of water. These early bloomers, and all plant species, prepared buds and flowers back in late summer, before going dormant for winter. This way as soon as the combination of more sunlight and warm enough temperatures arrive, they can immediately start growing. Competition for resources is just as fierce in the plant world as in the animal world. So go ahead, find out which trees are ready for spring.
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