Actually, I was thinking about that last week when I was looking at the bloodroot plants. I know plants need the cold but our warmer then normal winter had some plants really confuse. Only five of my trout lilies came up there was a lot more last year. And of that only one bloomed but I got a bloom.

I am located in the NC Piedmont, and I thought the blooms were the best ever, even if a week or so earlier than usual. I had some plants come up that I had not seen in years! (We finally had some rain the last two summers, but August was very hot and dry.)

I noticed that a sarvis berry is just now beginning to show leaf growth; the silverbell next to it has already flowered and leafed out. Maybe it is confusion in the plant world?

Voles can destroy so much. I had a natural stand of pink lady slippers, probably 60 or so, that they took out in one season. Luckily, I still have a few left on another part of the property.

Hope your plants will return next year.