I was out looking around yesterday. Yes the trout lilies are blooming - some actively, some just sending up fat buds so far. Hepatica is also blooming, and just starting, a patch of Houstonia (Bluets). One of Fly Poison (Amianthium muscitoxicum) plants has emerged. Here the trilliums are only visible if I pull away the leaves to look for them. I think my yard is in a colder area than yours.

Buds are swelling on Buckeyes (the red ones, one of my favorite shrubs) and Spicebush (Lindera benzoin). Sweetshrubs, on the other hand, continue to look almost dead - they are late to show signs of life usually. A pair of chokeberries (formerly Aronia) that I planted last fall already show leaves and bloom buds ... hope they don't get zapped ... but they made it through the last round of below freezing temps. The blueberries that I bought last spring also seem more advanced than the ones I've had for 4 years.

Daphne and daffodils are blooming like crazy right now - full show. The daphne lost about 1/3 of its leaves in the 10 degree episode, but the bloom buds survived to carry on.

For now, rain, rain, rain. And the big question, will it snow?

We are getting snow here in Middle GA...hope this "wintry mix" (BTW, I'm starting to think that would be a great name for a band...) doesn't adversely affect your early bloomers!

Over 2 inches on the ground and coming down heavy right now on the mountain at Warm Springs. A beautiful sight but not what I want on March 1st.

I am a new, relatively inexperienced and probably bad gardener...and I'm so nervous about this snow! Will my day lilies that have started to sprout be okay? What about hydrangeas that have buds?

Your daylilies and hydrangeas should be fine. Back in 1993, we got 12 inches of snow! Everything lived, but some things had to sprout again.

several inches of snow here, enough for a big snowman!

Everything looks beautiful, i took some pics of the garden in the snow -- a huge camellia covered in both snow and flowers.

I made a "tent" out of pine straw bales and a big furniture blanket to protect the new plants i bought last week, i hope they make it.

Gosh, 12 inches of snow, that must be a record for GA!

Its supposed to be in the high 60s-70s next weekend...

I am at least glad that it is doing this NOW...maybe it means there won't be any more this year.

Did anyone get any damage to their plants? A couple of my wax myrtles had some branches that broke under the weight of the snow. I went out yesterday evening and shook the snow off all of the weighed-down shrubs, but too late for those. My Anise (Illicim parviflorum and floridanum) look rather unhappy, they were flattened almost to the ground and haven't perked up much since i shook the snow off.
Daffodil flowers are all done!

I hope no-one had any serious damage.

We got hardly any snow and our county schools are not even closed today.

Illicium is my "weather detector" plant - if they are not in sun especially, they will droop in temps below 32 degrees. Once the temp rises above 32, they are back to normal. As of this moment, my I. parviflorum and I. floridanums in sun are fine, but the I. floridanum is shade is still droopy.

Spring is getting closer and closer. Will be 74 tomorrow! It does not mean we are out of the woods yet, though "green stuff" is getting bigger and richer. Every day there is something new poking thru the soil, and I feel like a kid discovering a new treat.
Daffs are gorgeous, hyacinths, crocuses, freshness, birds, - I love it all! Possibility and promise of spring is in everything.
Of course there is also a possibility of hard frost till April 15th (like last year). Being an optimist as I am, I choose to enjoy this moment.

Here in Central GA it is supposed to be 85...EIGHTY FIVE???...by the middle of the week! Crazy! Of course, it will drop down again when the rain comes at the end of the week, but...EIGHTY FIVE??? Wow. Planted some of that butterfly blue scabiosa this weekend, as well as five, dwarf variegated gardenia. Holding off a couple more weeks on the tomatoes though...just in case.

Spring has arrived at my house! I was out taking pictures of the tiny trout lilies today. I noticed that while the vast majority of them have vibrant purple stamens, I have one that has brown ones!

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Two ways I know it's spring:

My nanking cherries look like this:

I see something like this on my southern window's ledge:

I have moved some tender plants outside, but not too far from the doorway! Forecast for next week indicates near freezing temperatures at night, during mid-week.

Browsing the NOAA/NWS/CPC site revealed s forecast of below normal rainfall during the next 3 months, for the southern tier of states. So, what else is new!
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