The unseasonably warm record setting weather is causing some flowering bushes to bud prematurely. Some of Highland Park's lilac bushes are showing signs of spring way too soon.
Mark Quinn, Monroe County's horticulturalist, says about 100 lilac bushes of the 1,200 located in the park are showing some leaves and even a few buds on them.
"What will happen is they will throw one or two blooms in a portion of a shrub and if they get far enough out those will freeze and that bloom won't be blooming this spring. But, there's a lot that aren't blooming at all and even the ones that do have bloom on them, not all of the shrub is blooming. It's a little unusual for them to push quite as much as they have this year but it not any kind of major problem yet," said Quinn.
Quinn says some bushes are supposed to bloom in the fall and winter such as the fragrant witch hazel and ornamental cherry shrubs.