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Mild weather has green thumbs springing to life

By Bryan Marquard

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 21, 2012

Blossoms already enliven forsythia and hellebores in Boston gardens, and buds even hint at spring in higher elevations. But isn’t it only February? By the calendar, the sky should be metal gray, not dessert blue. Rivers should be coated with ice, rather than beckoning boats during the winter that wasn’t. Consistently mild weather is winding the internal clocks of gardens and gardeners ahead a season.

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