What the wind can do...

I poked around the field of baby plants today in search of evidence of wind/cold damage...

...and I found some.

You can see some shriveled leaves on this bud.

Here is a bud with some green, and some drooping, dried out leaves.

Contrast the left spring green bud with the rest of the buds on the right, which are drooping and browning.

More of the same...

Close up.

I'm hoping that we have only lost a few early leaves, and not the whole bud. These buds lengthen out to become fruit laterals. The fruit laterals are populated with more buds that flower and become berries. Losing the whole bud on a cane means losing all the fruit.

The next pictures show that there are many buds that look to be just fine! 

How I hope there will be no more NE wind and 28 degree nights!

Grateful for the upper 50 degree afternoons this week.