I spied a crocus on Saturday! Then Sunday it snowed. But only an inch, today it’s mostly gone, and those intrepid crocuses are open again!

Here (outside DC), the native crabables were showing a bit of green last week. Crocuses up a couple of weeks before that, Daffodils last week, too. A few other trees startng to show green, but not the oaks. Weather fluctuates-warm one day (20+°), lower 60s/upper 50s (13-15°c), even down into 40s (9-11° c) other days. Absolutely no consistency.

The early spring flowering trees are doing their thing. This is my neighbor's redbud putting on a show. In a month or so, our Vitex will begin putting out their profuse purple blooms. Always such a lovely time of year, pollen allergies and all.

Spring is beginning to spring here in Central Massachusetts also!! What I initially thought were crocus turn out to be tiny iris which I forgot I had planted last fall. And the real crocus are showing shoots. Snowdrops are in bloom, with more to come. Trees are getting a small haze of buds. Some early daffodils are up with fat buds, but too soon to flower yet. Wish I were 15 years younger to deal with all the work to come, but looking forward to what I will manage!

I’m in savannah and our trees are just starting to bud. Azaleas are just beginning to bloom, tulip magnolias are having their showy week. Tropicals like elephant ears are just breaking through the leaf litter. The funniest thing about spring here is our live oak trees all look terrible- they don’t drop their leaves in the fall but instead drop them now as the new leaves come out so the trees all look diseased.

Here in southern California, my rose bushes all have leaves after being bare sticks for the winter. The Bradford pear blossoms have already dropped and the trees are full of green leaves. Thank goodness for that because they make such a mess. All the trees were pruned a few weeks ago while it was still cool.

Shane you just didn’t cut down the Bradford pears… (sorry I’m a Bradford hater, they are so pretty but an ecological mess)

Daffodils, tulips and forsythia are blooming here but we don't have any of those - because I do not like yellow flowers (ok, maybe a pale yellow rose), and the squirrels eat my tulip bulbs! LOL

That's fine Hallet. I've heard it before but our Bradfords are very large (we have 2), and I am not one to cut trees, unless absolutely necessary. Our oaks do the same, but they lose about half their leaves in the fall and its the bottom half that still have brown leave. I will be so glad to see them go!! We have a crabapple we are going to have to cut because the cicadas did a number on the bark a few years ago. It has died slowly, so we kept waiting, hoping . . . but there is no sign of life this year. We pay $$$ each year because one of our VERY LARGE oaks has some kind of disease, but it gets a yearly dose of medicine. We are trying to hang on to it. It is in the front and there is another one down from it - same size/age and if one goes, it is going to look very weird with one left. : ( Fun, our Bradfords have started with the leaves, but still have some blooms. Ours are almost to the back line of our property, so mess is not a problem for us.

This year I am absolutely going to get a blue hydrangea! I was out a little while ago and noted i need to trim my monkey grass, prune the roses and I have a couple of other bushes that I can handle. We have quite a few azaleas in the back and they will need pruned after they bloom. They are greening up, but I have not looked for buds. The ones along the back wall of the sunroom are growing up the windows so they definitely need a trim!

Yes, the early signs of spring are her. Crocuses, snowdrops and daffodils. However its too soon to count on full time spring weather. Many times Ive seen daffodils squashed by snow. I kind of doubt it will snow but we have a lot of wind and rain ahead. I did plant some pansies because i couldnt resist.

@HALLETT & Co., I'm considering having the two BPears in my garden removed...maybe next winter.

The only sign of spring here is that the snow and ice are gone, but we enjoyed seeing greenery and some flowers in Savannah last week!

Sue you really need to move South! : ) We are headed that direction soon, but will be bypassing Savannah. At least that is the plan for now.

Black Forest Colorado: No, still Winter weather. Expecting 1.5" of snow Tuesday AND Wednesday, getting down to 18F @ night. The daffodils are about a quarter of an inch out of the ground, they bloom in May. We can get some of our heaviest snow storms in late May.

Spring in the Coronado Forest Tucson Az.

DH lost the snowball fight! We drove to the gate and hiked the rest to the summit today. 85 in the city below.

Some early signs of spring here in the middle of New Jersey. Some trees are showing a slight pink haze, the red twig dogwood brances are vibrant red and the andromeda flowers are opened.

Lucky you, blubird. Here in my neck of central NJ, there's nothing. Snow and ice are gone (thank goodness), but nothing is budding yet.

I absolutely love spring. It means summer is coming and I love love love summer.

I do not like fall for the same reason. It means winter is coming and I really really do not like winter.

Apologies, I know geraniums don’t shout springtime! Still thrilling to me is the effect of the recent beautiful rains here in Ca.

Fun2Bhere, do keep an eye on the Bradford pears. The neighbor behind us had one that we didn't realize had split and nearly hit his garage. The another main part of it split off, damaged our fence, took out a plum tree and hit the edge of our garage. I noticed as they are blooming how few there are compared to years past. There is one at the entrance to our street that is looking pretty craggy and I'm going to see if we can get approval to remove it and plant a redbud, a native plumb or something.

Our azaleas are in full bloom but the early flowering peach is all leaves now. The last summer one is still blooming, as are the citrus. I love the smell of the citrus blooms -- and we have the first blooms on our dwarf grapefruit since the year before the freeze that knock out the power here. I'm so excited - we had about 60 of the sweetest, best grapefruit I'd ever eaten that year and nothing since. I hope we get fruit and it's even anywhere near that good.

Here in Tuscon the back patio is in full bloom with this Texas Mountain Laurel. The hummingbirds abound here. So many different flowers that I’m not familiar with.

Lots of things have started blooming loke crazy in the past couple of weeks. Now it’s time for Momma Nature to laugh. It is supposed to be down to 30 degrees tomorrow night. I know better than to plant anything new until mid-April but so many don’t wait. As usual the tulip poplar will suffer the most. Can’t do much about that.

A sample of the many daffodils

The hellebores are really showy this year

Love the pieris blooms

I meant to say, Tina, that purple blooming weed you have is called Henbit. aggravating but it will die back eventually. The only way to be rid of it is to put out a pre-emergent earlier.

Bradford Pear are one of the scourges of the southeast! All those stinky blooms and its cousin, the Callary Pear mostly along rural fence lines but people have propagated them in their yards too, is even worse with huge thorns. I won’t ever grow Sweet Autumn Clematis again either. It seeds everywhere!

Pampas Grass is now considered invasive in South Alabama and probably other states too. It’s a matter of time before it’s considered invasive in other places. Not very well-behaved.

Thanks @OutsidePlaying. I looked at a picture of Henbit and that is exactly what we have. It is mainly in our landscaped areas. Thankfully it is pretty easy to pull up. Our Bradford Pears are at the back of the property, so we do not smell them. We do know to watch for splits, etc. so far so good! These trees are around 25 years old and large. When I worked, if I went a certain direction on my lunch hour, I drove through an area of beautiful old homes. One always caught my attention and they had an old stone column at the end of the driveway. A Sweet Autumn Clematis grew up over it. It was just beautiful. I finally found out what the vine was and we have one on a trellis in our back yard. I do know to cut it way back after it blooms and so far we have had no seedlings come up. I love them and we will plant the second one soon.

That is sad about pampas grass! It's so lovely, and you see alot in some coastal areas. I especially like the variety with pink plumes. : ( I also love pink muhly grass! I potted a smoke bush last year and hope this year the "haze" will appear on it. There is something about those type plants/bushes that I love.

Warm days, pouring rain yesterday, then this morning I woke to the sound of the city plows. What? I looked out, saw 2.5“ of SNOW under bright blue skies, and snuggled right back down under the covers. All day though, it has been melting off the roof into the downspouts so fast it sounds like rain. Now it is dry where the sun shines, still snow where the sun doesn’t shine, so maybe this is the last gasp. It does smell like a Chicago March, though: crisp, hopeful.

It’s not spring that was sprung down here— yesterday it was 79 degrees and this afternoon the “feels like” temp was 34…….insane!

I went outside without a coat today! It was 62 around midday. Back in the 40s now.

Driving past a field today I heard the spring frogs! and saw a nice patch of Siberian squill, such a pretty blue. I had my down coat and scarf on, but hey, that’s spring in the Great Lakes.

Was 95 here in Tucson yesterday!! Much better today and we were out on the bikes. Folks out here are MUCH more used to the heat than we are !! c

Yesterday it was 85 in Sonoma County. My doors and windows were open until nearly 9 pm. It felt more like summer than spring. Today cloudy and a high of 58. March is such a trickster.

Love this thread, thanks, Tina. :)

My neighbor’s crossvine is putting on its spring show over our fence. I’m so happy she planted it and tell her every time I see her.

It was drizzling out this morning, so pics look gloomy … it’s very vibrant in person. Best of all, it’s covered in bees.