Ooo! That gives me hope! You're only one zone above me.

MELT YOU STUPID FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF SNOW!!!

Nothing here yet.

I have some crocus but they aren't up yet.

"MELT YOU STUPID FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF SNOW!!!"

Scully that cracks me up!

I've got crocus blooming, too! I'm in zone 6 north of still partially snow-covered Philadelphia! So, yes, there is hope! It was such a nice surprise. I counted 5 yesterday. I currently have a bit of bulb mayhem going on because I did a ton of cultivation without the ability to be really concerned for the existing bulbs from the previous homeowner (I moved in almost exactly 1 year ago). I collected and replanted what I found, but I swear there are many more this year. Guess they're happier with the newly cultivated beds! I'll post some pics later. It's kinda funny.

Lisa

I have had crocus up and blooming for about three weeks now...my tulips/dafodills and others I don't remember have popped up. Our weather here in mid-north Arizona (near Prescott) has been interesting. I see signs of spring on some plants coming back green :):) Weatherman says we will get more snow over the weekend. It doesn't last long so that's great.

I wish I knew how to post pix... If I could I'd post my daffodils and hyacinths coming up. My bradford pear is about to open its first flowers maybe tomorrow. :)

My mom lived in Indiana and always loved seeing the crocus pop up. It meant winter was almost over. None in my southern yard, but I do have some paperwhites.

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Beautiful!

I've not seen my crocus this year. They used to bloom in February. Maybe something ate them this year (rabbits have already been munching anything green -- daylily foliage, dutch iris foliage)

Nothing in bloom here. There are some daffs blooming at the old sawmill site on the land, but nothing that I've planted is in bloom.

Cameron

Only snowdrops and hellebores. It's been so cold, even my winter iris are going to be spring iris.

Typically this time of year my early daffs are almost done blooming. Maybe they will start to bloom this week as we are supposed to see 60 degrees for most of the week. Yeah!

Nothing here as far as much growth or flowers. Not even the crocus have come up yet to flower. The daffs and wood hycinith do have afew inches of green growth on their leaves but its going to be weeks bewfore they bloom. Last fall I put in about 200 new daffs so I am really looking forward to the spring show.

Yesterday I did my first real spring walkabout and looked carefullly at the garden. Its finially warmed up some to near 50 and the mucho snow from February has just about all melted.

Shrubs are starting to show swell at the leaf buds so I know spring is coming. Its my favorite time of the year as everything starts to get green and then flower.

I did so much work on the yard and rearranging of things and adding new that I am especially excited this year to see it all grow and bloom.

Pretty soon it will be time to do the spring rose prunning and as soon as the daylilies start to grow I can move the last ones around that I didn't get to last fall.

New last year are the tall beared iris I planted and also siberian iris and lots of new lily bulbs. I can't wait to see how it all does this spring. I am hoping that my TB iris do well and all bloom as I hope to get more if I did well with the ones I planted last summer.

I am out there starting to prune my roses today. Early for that but its such a beautiful day, near 60 in the shade. Also I see some of the evergreen daylilies starting to get some signs of green. Nothing on the dormants yet, no sign of growth at all.

Lisa - it is amazing what a little feeding/encouragement can bring back to life. My back border has given many surprises, as bulbs continue to pop up and bloom. Most of my crocuses (croci?)are still under snow, but my one SW facing bed has tulip noses and chives popping out!! Yes, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks to those who shared pics - so beautiful.

Nancy.

Was out talking to the neighbors on this gorgeous spring like day and I went searching in their yard for signs of bulbs poking through. Their one hillside always melts before anything else because of the way the sun hits it.

TULIP SHOOTS coming up!!! Woo! They laughed at how excited I was.

These little guys surprised me yesterday with their bright little faces. I just planted them in the fall, so I didn't realize that the tricolor crocus's flowers preceed their foliage.

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Here is one of my catmint clumps (Nepata 'Walkers Low') they look happy in the warm weather!

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Here is some of the "bulb mayhem" I mentioned in an earlier post. Any idea if I can move them now? I'm guessing I should wait until after the blooms fade.

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And here is my back yard one month ago. Even the snow man was cold. There is hope!

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Lisa