OH how I hope your right. I'm so afraid that this is going to be one of those crazy years for weather. I hope no one will loose any more plants and trees to this weather. I keep hearing the birds sing of a morning. Still no plants up here.
Bonnie

I've heard the peepers too. Have to go check my crocus. They're still under leaves. I forget the poor babies every year.
vickie

Oh, I know it's not really spring yet, and we can get lots of cold weather yet, but to me crocuses and peepers are the first hints of spring to come. ANd yes, I certainly hope we don't get another hard freeze like last year. I lost most of a 40 ft row of 2 ft tall Super Sugar Snap Peas in April and had to replant. Only got half a normal harvest because the second planting just didn't have enough cool growing time.

I planted hardy pansy in front of the house last fall and a handful of them are still living and blooming. Being from Wisconsin - they have made my heart sing (and our friends back home jealous).

I don't see any growth on mine....that is one of the spots the dear dog has chosen to scratch and lay on. May not have anything left there!

I planted 3 tubs of pansies last fall--1 on the north of the house and two on the South side of the yard with nandinas to the north of them. Only one plant survived in the north pot but most of them are still alive in the south. Those and the Hellebore have been standing up perkily during warm spells for a couple months and wilting down when it freezes. I love them, but the crocus coming in late winter are special to me. Today I found 3 stems of early daffs that had stems long enough to bring in the house along with a branch of a flowering quince showing color and a couple branches of forsythia. ANd I saw a wren the other day. I took advantage of the warmish day today to pull winter weeds in a flower bed--nasty henbit, deadnettle and my most hated winter weed, chickweed. (I have a friend that was leaning to garden a few years ago. She showed me her newly constructed raised bed which she had mixed compost into. As I admired it, I saw a chickweed, looking a bit wilted in the middle of it. I said, "It looks really great, except for this nasty thing, and I reached down and pulled it out." "Is that a nasty thing?" she asked. "I thought it was so sweet with it's tiny white flowers that I transplanted it to be a ground cover." "Then it's lucky for you that I came along," I said. "That is a noxious weed and you will learn to hate it" She later admited that I was right.) But I left the wild pansies--Johnny Jumpups, because I love to eat the flowers and it won't be long. Had to weed around the self-seded poppies and larkspurs which are small but coming along.

My lilac crocus are blooming and my pansies are good too. I forget them and they are close to my side walk. LOL