I'm in z5 and some of my phlox is just now starting to peek up.

My phlox is showing new growth at the base. I’m in zone 6ish (Detroit, MI area).

Mine is three inches tall in Virginia.

In Brooklyn, Ny and mine is about 2 inches tall.

I’m zone 8 (Seattle suburb) and all of my phlox is up.

Not exactly fair to compare PNW plant development with the rest of the country :-) We are often several weeks to a month ahead of cooler zones!

(I like seeing the different time lines of plant development in different hardiness zones for the same perennial)

Rouge, the one that always surprises me is hosta. Last year nw and i were comparing notes and even though I should be way ahead of her (she’s zone 6) our pips were pretty comparable. So weird!

This discussion made its way to the Rose forum.

For those of us here who may not know, the OP is up in Nome.

So it is too early; no worries.

if the soil settled.. and the plant went down a bit.. it might be a bit late popping out ...

imo.. its too early to freak out ...

ken

Many phlox species are blooming here, I have stolonifera blooming, pilosa also, and glabberima isn't far behind.

They're poking out of the ground here in MN.

That is such a pretty picture subk3.

It's not off-topic, that IS a phlox ;) Now if you posted pics of daffodils, you'd be off topic.

And here I am dbarron, waiting outside for that very first to open daffodil. (Maybe just like a kettle i.e. a watched daff never blooms?)

@dbarron has thrown the gauntlet down now, maybe this will be off topic? Here are a couple more pictures from my walk in the woods:

May Apples:

Trillium:

Little White flowers (I don't know what it is):

Your little white flowers are anemones, and I'm I'm not sure what one..I was thinking canadensis, but the leaves are wrong.

The problem with breaking topic is it *may* be annoying to the OP who gets notifications and emails.

(Zone: CDN 5b) Specifically Phlox paniculata: we probably have five or six dozen of these plants (my favourite plant) and only two have appeared so far; below a 'Twister', divided last fall. The portions of the plant, temporarily potted up, show no sign of life yet. As you'd expect, the two phlox plants, earliest to appear, are in the very sunniest locations in the garden.

There obviously exists far fewer cultivars for other member of the Paniculata-Maculata group. I've planted a few cultivars, each of Carolina, smooth (wild: picture above) and meadow phlox; plus one of Arend's-hybrids. Other that Arend's 'Baby Face', none of these other phlox have done robustly here. As to the woodland phlox cultivars, the longest any has survived is two years.

Mine in 5b have had growth showing for weeks now. My delphiniums however have not made an appearance yet. I hope I didn't dig them by mistake.

I should have mentioned, but I am in zone 5 IL, so I'm starting to get a little concerned when other people in zone 5 are seeing growth.

Understood, I have a number of no-shows that concern me (only one was a phlox), and I just don't know if they're making sure the cold is over, or they departed to greener pastures. It wasn't a severe winter in any way, and a long extended fall, I would have expected everything to be fine.

It wasn't a severe winter in any way, and a long extended fall, I would have expected everything to be fine.

Easy winter up here for sure but even so right now I really have to look closely to see any sign of phlox...just barely coming through....its only April 4...all good I am sure.

in my z5 MI ... i often found that the mild winters were actually worse ... as compared to snow covered extreme cold winters ...

it was the .. get them dormant.. keep them dormant logic ... with the insulating cover of snow.. boy do they stay dormant ...

whereas when no snow cover ... they might go in and out of dormancy ... or the soil loses too much moisture with warm sun on the soil ... regardless of temps ....depending on mulch ...

ken

We don't experience snow cover, more than a week at a time, and that's very very rare.

Just a little update. I checked outside again today, and I noticed a very small amount of growth at the base of the plants. I'm so relieved that it's alive. I did toss a few coffee grounds around it the other day, so perhaps that little bit of fertilizer did the trick.

Mine as of today (Texas). We’ve had very unusual weather ... 30s a few days ago, 80s today.