Most (but not all) of my established alliums are up, but those I planted last fall haven't appeared yet. I've noticed in prior years that newly planted bulbs take a little longer to come up in the spring.

Well, mine haven't grown that much since I first posted this. I do have a few irises coming up, but the tips of their leaves are brown from the cold we've had. Now we're expecting 4" of snow on Thursday with a low of 15. The earliest blooming plant I have is the perennial corydalis. Usually by mid April I have little white flowers on them. They are the 1st to bloom and the last to quit. Another month and they should be looking good. :) Kat

I feel your pain!! I had an Afghan Hound that ate every thing! I had roasted a whole chicken with potatoes and carrots in one of those cook in bags, we ate the chicken and stuff but the carcass was still in the bag on the counter to be put in the trash, quick as a blink he jumped up grabbed it off the counter and snuck off with it. He ate the entire thing! bag, chicken carcass and all. All in one gulp it seemed. Well we were very worried and followed him around and lo and behold a couple days later he was out in the yard trying to do his business and have a bit of a problem. My husband had to put on some plastic gloves and lend assistance!! It was the entire bag still in one piece. No sign of the chicken LOL I had one of my Great Danes that would eat the rocks that were below the bbq grill where the grease would drip down on them, no matter how much we tried to cover that up she dug till she got those rocks and ate them. Never a problem she would pass them. That same Afghan hound had got loose from the original owner and gone trash can hopping, had apparently eaten a large wad of aluminum foil. Well that was a problem because it will not pass and will not deteriorate quickly. In fact this is how I became the owner of that dog, my vet called me and asked if I could take it on that the current owner traveled and just could not deal with the dog. I said sure. We ended up having to give him special digestive enzyme pills to help break down the foil, his other bad habit was drinking toilet water and I had the blue cleaner stuff in my toilets, well that nearly killed him, it ate holes in his stomach. I had no idea he was drinking in there. But to this day I will never put anything in my toilets again I had no idea that stuff was so dangerous Long story short he lived to be a very old dog and ate many more things in his long life including an entire Christmas ham and an entire Christmas Turtle Cheesecake! and a shoe or 2. And survived testicular cancer and the removal of um them. I hope that makes you feel a little better and know I am praying for you and your dog!!

Cyclamen grows from tubers according to the Cyclamen Society. While others may call it a corm, I have never seen any offsets like Gladiolus have which are corms. http://www.cyclamen.org/plants/species/cyclamen-hederifolium/