Beginner Gardening: early greening of all my perenials, 0 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
These plants (bulbs) are so smart; they know just when to poke up, even when it is cold. The only ones I have ever lost to a late freeze were daffodils and it was only because they had started to bud in February after a very mild winter.

Zone 6b on the coast is a bit milder, but we got a few blasts of arctic air and winds, making it bitterly cold. All the new bulbs I planted in September and all the existing bulbs are coming up at the same time. Besides that, the tree peonies all have little red buds in their axils. I'm embarassed to admit I do not remember the plant in the pic, only that it is new this year, so I'll have to pore thru the empty bags I saved. What a beautiful harbinger of spring!