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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsanyone have daffodils blooming yet?
Or crocus?
Or anything?
Here at my house, the camellias hedges are starting to bloom. The daffodil plants are about five inches out of the ground, no buds yet. Some tulips are about two inches up.
That's about it.
How is it where you are?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Couple more months here in east-central Wisconsin. The crocus will show their heads through the (hopefully) last vestiges of snow, then the daffy's will pop.
Can't come soon enough.
NutmegYankee
(16,204 posts)I might see grass in a month...
elleng
(131,262 posts)another reason to be so sad about leaving and then having sold our house in DC. Used to have crocus early Feb., and now I have no way to judge the real progress of Spring. (Covered with snow here in DC suburb.)
DebJ
(7,699 posts)There is NO spring or fall. Can't even plant flowers until Mother's Day ( i refused to believe that my first year
here, no matter what the planting guides and friends said, and watched it all get frozen to death on April 30).
I grew up with crocus and daffodils and jonquils and azaleas and white and pink dogwoods everywhere.
Nothing here. Nothing. Just mud. Snow, cold, one week of 'spring', then burning heat.
On Edit: and when I lived in Columbia Md for many years, I had tulips up in March, and a second
batch in April.
elleng
(131,262 posts)Very glad I'm in MD, south, central (dc suburb) and nw.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)..... I was picking up a friend who lived on a residential street in Arlington. As I waited for her, I noticed that the flora was like a Kodacolor Disney movie: bright dogwood, flowering trees, bulbs blooming everywhere, azalea. It was such an exuberant display of spring that it was almost surreal. Like a dream.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)still had a three foot high by 6 foot long blooming rose garden. Amazing.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)My wild sunflowers started to grow during the cold weather we had.
No real flowers yet.
One of my neighbor's little tree has blooms.
One tree has buds.
Spring had arrived.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Been a long winter!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)remarkable because we just got over a series of ice and sleet and freezing nights, then a few days of warm up to 50's, then more freezing, etc.
And yet, despite all that..the bulbs are up and a few lil yellow heads are opening.
Have no idea how they did that, except that the ground did not freeze more than 1/4 inch.
Today was first day of 70 degrees, yet some trees are popping forth blossoms, and the quinch and wisteria are budded out.
Brother Buzz
(36,487 posts)First time in twenty-five years. What's up with that?
Narcissus and almonds are the only things blooming in my Northern California yard. Daffodils are up, but they bloom later, and buds on the lemons are getting fat - love their smell. I transplanted a bunch of irises to a real nice sunny location and they took off real quick and are happy - I expect nice blooms later.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,926 posts)Everything here is buried under several feet of snow. I don't expect to see flowers for quite awhile, maybe June.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I can't see them under the 4 feet of stinking snow.
Once this crap finally melts it shouldn't take long.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)It always amazes me to see the little green shoots surviving under all that heavy snow.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)They started in December and some blooms lasted until the first week of February. They used to start blooming in February!
Now the azaleas are starting to bloom.
Tallahassee, Florida.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)That's on top of the 8 or so we got a couple days ago. Which was on top of several inches of solid ice.
Running out of places to put it. At least it reached freezing today! Heat wave!!!!!!
But I doubt there's any flowers under the snow and ice pack.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)dafs with little buds started. Tulips are poking up
GreenPartyVoter
(72,384 posts)progressoid
(50,008 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Flowers? You've got to be kidding.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)Got a few buds on some of our trees too.
mnhtnbb
(31,410 posts)Late for us, this year. Usually we have lots more daffodils up by now.
Auggie
(31,222 posts)for about 10 days. Tulips very soon. Northern California.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)It smells so good early in the morning. I think it's jasmine. But, all the trees around here, Pink Ipe, Crape Myrtle, Magnolias, etc. are acting like late Spring. It's quite scary, actually.