MONTPELIER, Vt. — The historic barrage of snow and cold that struck New England this winter has pushed back the gardening season and left behind damaged bushes, trees and greenhouses — and gardeners clamoring to get their hands in the dirt.
The growing season is one to two weeks behind schedule after a winter that lacked the usual mid-season thaw and kept the snow piling up.
In Boston, where 108.6 inches of snow broke a two-decade-old record, the first of the crocuses were showing this week and daffodils were just breaking ground. Typically those flowers would already be in full bloom, said John Forti, horticultural director for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
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