Snow drops are in bloom, I'm in the Berkshires.

Snowdrops
Crocus
Dwarf iris

I've got pretty much the same as last week too:

snowdrops
crocus
hellebore
iris reticulata

scilla - new bloomer this week!

I've also got lots of stuff poking up - daylilies, dicentra, tiarellas, daisies...

:)
Dee

Ooh, scilla, can't wait - mine aren't blooming yet. My list is pretty much the same as last week (witch hazel, hellebores, heath, winter jasmine, snowdrops, crocus) but the coum cyclamen are going wild. Last week I was thinking they weren't all that exciting, but that was because they were just doing a little preview. Now they're really worth looking at.

Not flowers, but don't you love the emerging leaf buds on sedum at this time of year? They're beautiful!

I just have daffy's coming up that I planted in the fall.

DtD, yes, the sedum is wonderful. Along the same lines, (although mine is not coming up yet) is my lysimachia punctata Alexander. I adore the way it comes up in tight little curls, and unfolds in pinks and creams and greens. Sometimes newly emerging plants are nicer - or at least more interesting - than the full-season ones!

I forgot to add that some of my scilla is actually blooming while only half out of the ground. It did that last year too - strange...

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Dee

My crocus are finally peeking out of the ground this morning. They are WAY behind my daffodils.

Well, I guess I posted too soon this week, lol! Today, I have one single daffodil in bloom (possibly a Tete-a-tete, but didn't get close enough to check yet).

I've also got two - count 'em! Two! - anemone blanda in bloom. I just cannot get these things established in my garden. I wonder where the other 48 of them that I planted last year are? Not to mention all the other ones I planted the year before that?

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Dee

Some heathers have flowers. Also crocus are up -- the ones not eaten by the deer! Pulmonaria is starting to poke it's head up. Usually flowers in early-mid April.

I have ONE crocus blooming! *does a happy dance* This isn't one of the ones I worked so hard to plant last fall-- it's from a clump of spent forced bulbs that I dumped out in the garden last spring. Go figure!

LOL, greening! Isn't that the way it always goes? Enjoy it anyway!

:)
Dee

Pretty much the same as everyone else:
Crocus
Hyacinths
hellebores
snowdrops

Yesterday, I finally saw a couple of those little, nodding, blue flowers that pop up in my lawn every year. Don't know what they are, but they are cute and tough, being survivors from at least two owners back, since the last one didn't do ANY gardening and, in fact, mowed under an extensive perennial bed I am still restoring. At least it gives me a hobby.

I planted over 130 bulbs last fall. One collection was from Brecks and included:

5 Brecks Colossal Daffodils
3 Angelique Tulips
12 Beauty Dutch Iris Mixture
15 Mixed Snow Crocus
25 Blue Grape Hyacinths
10 Grecian Windflowers
8 Mixed Kaleidoscope Tulips
25 Mixed Mountain Bells

So far, I haven't seen a single plant come up and they are all in southern exposures. The ground hasn't been disturbed, so I don't think they were eaten or dug up. My asparagus bed hasn't come up yet, either, so I guess I'm just being impatient. But, I thought I'd at least see the crocus come up by now. My mom's crocus down in Jersey are done already.

narcnh

Here we have blooming:

Crocus
Witch hazel almost done
Mixed daffs ready to burst
Star Magnolia ready to burst

"Mountain bells" haven't come up here, yet, either but from other gardens I know these are always late pokers. Worth the wait, though. Put in about 300 of them.

Have determined that I have a strong Z7 microclimate as my Blaze climbing rose is budding out to the point of true leaves and today I'll start taking it's mulch down. Next to it chives are about 6" tall. Ditto the tall Sedum. Rain will bring much more action, I'm sure.

All is exciting to me during my first Spring in Z6.

Martie

The first daffodil is open! And, I neglected to report earlier on my first 2 dandelions.

Dawn Virurnum is showing color, after a long wait. I hope it's earlier in future years, it was moved last summer and may have suffered from that trauma.

I'll share too.

Heaths
Crocus
Sunburst witch hazel
Hellebores
azalea graft with some mysterious hair grey bloom/seed.

Not blooming but still interesting;
Corkscrew willow
Red=twig dogwoods

Look how CUTE these are! I plopped these in from a WM purchase last fall. Only the red ones have come up and bloomed (about 4 of them)...but I can't wait for the rest! They are called "Peacock Mix" tulips, and they're only about 4" high...little baby tulips! (Commercial pic link)

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