Pretty.

My roses are just about done so I guess it's spring. :)

Lucky you. Love the pictures. Spring is still at least 4-6 weeks away for me:( But I did see an early sign of it today. No robins or crocuses, but the gas station had bags of mulch stacked up. lol

Some of our daffodil foliage is starting to poke out. I saw 2 single snow drops and that's it. We are also about 4 more weeks away from spring and we're due 8 inches of snow today.

Great photos, where are you Christopher?

I am just outside Great Smoky Mountain National Park in western North Carolina, the crossroads of hot and cold where mood swings are common. Snow well into April was normal when I first moved here. Now?

Our climate has changed here too - moody, good word. [g] Not sure what is normal any more. It's pretty unpredictable but changes have been inconsistent, so, who knows. We've had a number of much drier summers, then last summer we had a ton of rain. I've had 60F degrees in January that never happened in the past. Definitely more snow in March and April.

And I drove through th Great Smoky Mountain area once, really pretty. Wished I could have had a good visit. One of these days.

Love your pictures and sentiment!! Crocus are my favorite early bloomers, a sign of Spring. My daffodils started poking up their green shoots. I am in NJ and we had some snow and ice recently ( ugh).

The diagnosis is waffling a bit at this point, but I will not be surprised by a dash of snow on the back side of the current front passing through.

We are having a short flush of really cold weather for us - below freezing at night and a light dusting of snow here and there in the morning - but spring is definitely on its way! Sunny days have prompted crocus and lawn daisies to bloom, hellebores are in full flower and lots of new shoots evident. Trilliums are starting to emerge, buds on the clematis and hydrangeas are staring to pop and a neighbor has a clump of daffodils in full bloom!

I'm ready :-) While we may not experience winter cold here like much of the country, it's too wet and chilly and gray to be very accommodating to wussy, fair weather gardeners like me. But the beginning of March usually signals the start of my gardening season and I have a list of projects that is growing by the day!!

The hellebores are blooming here too. My trilliums never show up until April. They know better.

On a recent do nothing but look walk around the mountain, all I came back with was a list of projects. I best write them down. A full work schedule will be resuming shortly.

No.

It certainly is here. Snowdrops are nearly finished. Crocuses in full swing. Lots of daffodils. Hyacinths starting. I’m having trouble posting pix. I’ll try later.

Ok. Fixed.... switched it off and switched it on again 😉

One of our local parks

One of my window boxes

The British certainly know how to let their bulbs run wild. A week of warm rain here has set the daffodils in motion. Crocus should appear in abundance next week. Not quite like your local park. Those are the Tommies I would think. We need more of that kind crocus.

Yes, those are Tommies.

What a beautiful spot you have, and yes I'd say it's early, early, early spring... maybe ;)

Here in NE Pa it's still late winter, but the witch hazels are blooming and the earliest snowdrops are starting (in between snowstorms). When the sun is shining and the birds are singing you can feel it's close.

I started a few more pots of seeds to put outside for sprouting and this weekend it's another round of cuttings indoors... just because I can, not because I need any more...

It's been very much Winter with a frozen surface most of February, except for two warm days this week, then back to cold. Some Galanthus "Snowdrops" blooms have popped up. Many Tulip leaf tops are just poking out of the soil, reddish tint from the cold like a succulent. Mini yellow Daffodils are just starting to poke out bright green. Some Alliums break the surface first in frozen conditions, some don't, I don't know why.

Why do Galanthus bloom so early? I know they are not native, but why try to attract insects so early?

Galanthus do not require pollination. They reproduce primarily by bulb division. But they will be visited by any bees, flies or other pollinators that may happen by on a warmish winter day.

A lot of bugs come out early looking for food. The cupboards are bare. Early blooming plants are good food sources for them when they need it. I actually see bugs at my porch light all winter long, even tiny gnat like things that hover above the Niwaki Gold Mop on sunny winter afternoons.

We're probably still 6 weeks away from full on break up. This year it's been so snowy, doubt if we'll even see the ground much before May! I envy ya'll starting to see some color!

Crocuses are history. You can’t move for daffodils in the local parks now.

So pretty to have parks full of daffodils. I don't think I've seen parks here that have them.

Finally all our snow disappeared over the weekend with a little warm weather. I see a few snowdrops starting to pop out and Hellbores showing beginning growth. And the snowplow dug a foot deep into our lawn along the edge, that's going to have to be repaired pretty quickly.

I also found an ANT in the kitchen....so it must be spring - they are out and about again! lol

You guys have got it all wrong. Summer is just finishing now, and we're moving into autumn ("Fall"!) Time to consign dead/dying vege plants to the compost heap and start sowing brassicas and broad-beans. ("Favas").

Still mostly in crocus mode here. The first daffodils are opening. Next door, Bulbarella's ridge top garden has achieved UK park like quantities of spring bulbs. She has returned to the mountain. Let the stinze begin. I'm not far behind.

shaxhome - All the way over the other side of the world. [g] Opposite world. lol Well, I hope you enjoyed summer and are ready for Fall. I know I was here in the Fall. Now I can't wait for spring after months of being cooped up!

Sooo pretty, Christopher! You have such a natural setting there.

Yes it is Spring in New Jersey! The tree pillens are circulating and I had to start my allergy eye drops.

Very cold windy wintry day today, well below freezing for over 24 hours. These non native "bulb" plants seem to shrug off all of the undependable weather. A little snow might offer some protection to some, but how low can new growth handle before damage?

March is the month that is bipolar. Yesterday I was in a hoodie putting the spring decorations on the mailbox. Today I was in a winter coat shoveling 7 inches of snow.

but how low can new growth (of bulbs) handle before damage?

I am about to find out. Daffodils can and do freeze when the weather goes wrong. The number of variables involved to achieve freeze damage is complex and interactive. What is the stage of growth, wind speed, snow cover, low temperature and duration below freezing? I'd put the low twenties in the danger zone at the wrong stage of growth and bloom. Wind is just evil.

Last night it was 52, This morning 20. Most of the day 14. Currently 11. Five inches of snow is shrinking on formerly warm ground. I did get a picture of perfect daffodils about to burst into bloom in the garden of Bulbarella Stinze before the storm.

As long as my daffodils don't bloom they are fine with the winter elements.

I'll find out what is left of the daffodils when the snow melts. Already back to 31 degrees. It was a 36 hour Polar Vortex. &%(**&#

I am going to go sprinkle some red poppy seeds on top of the snow that I saved. Now is the time for that.

For all practical purposes the bulk of the daffodil show for this year has been obliterated. The good news is the foliage did not suffer major freeze damage for the most part. The bulbs won't be starved for the year as well. This being the garden of Bulbarella Stinze, there are plenty backups in late blooming daffodils. The minor bulbs of puschkinia, chionodoxa, scilla, etc. were not up yet. The anemones are fine. And of course, we will have the Spanish Bluebells in their time. The garden grows on.

So sorry to hear that! I'm hoping we don't have the same, but every year we come pretty close at least. Some times I've run around with every cover that I can put over them. I've changed the bulbs I buy so that I've stopped buying any really early bulbs. All the daffodils I buy now are mid to late blooming. Glad you have a lot of other bulbs still to come.