Brug waking up already

Was playing in the flower beds today and noticed a lot of my Brugs have already started putting on new growth under the mulch...kind of early even for this area.

Glory, mine too. i stuck one of shirley's cuttings straight in the ground some time in october and it is even coming back. also, some in big pots that froze are getting leaves a couple of feet up on the stalks!! kinda surprised by that. and my yellow cestrum is over six feet tall, has green leaves breaking out everywhere all the way to the top. even my confed rose is putting out leaves on old stalks. kinda glad i waited and looked at dead stalks for the past month.

Arlene,
A lot of my stuff is coming up already...hope we don't get to much more cold weather....supposed to be in the mid 30's by the weekend here.

Huh??? New growth and leaves coming out? I'm so depressed.Nothing coming up here except for 8 more inches of snow tomorrow on top of a foot still on the ground. I won't see any new growth till May and that will be my daffodils.

our low is supposed to be 40-45 friday night, 50+ sat night, 45 or so sun & mon nights. the red buds are blooming, my azaleas are blooming. i declared spring a couple of weeks ago, unless we have a freak storm, low 30s won't hurt anything. especially short plants near the ground, at least it didn't hurt them last fall or spring. Snow, don't know how you guys do it with a 3-4 month growing season. i lived in marietta ga for a year, and that was so depressing... som many bare trees and it was either really cold or raining/cloudy.

Gloria and Arlene, your weather sounds like mine. I've had the air on the last two days. Even for this part of TX this is weird for January. The hydranga, obedient plants, trees, and lots of other plants are budding. Sure hop we don't get any more really bad weather for extended periods.
We still have February to go

Oh you guys......this is hard for us poor northerners to handle. We got about 8 inches of snow yesterday and the same amount + is in the offing for today. Like Snowhermit, we get a pretty late start, but I won't let it get me down, I won't, I won't..........(had to put Snow's whole name in there, otherwise the sentence was confusing)

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my daffodils are about bloomed out, the quince is flowering and the forsythia is about to burst. 74 here today. 50s at night. and of course, it's going to be 41 high next week. wouldn't you know, you can't hold off old man winter:(

It's getting cold again tonight ~ possible freezes next two nights. I haven't declared spring yet for our part of the world as the mesquites haven't budded out yet. Grandma Wall always went by them and for the last 3 years it's held true. Anyone else have any weather-predicting "tools"?

They say it's not spring here till the redbuds bloom.

I have been debating planting out my Brugmansia each and every day for the past two weeks. Of course my Brugmansia in the ground have started to sprout back as well and my Brugmansia further south never died back. To plant in the ground or not...that is the question. I kick myself for not taking more cuttings of some of my hybrids before I let the cold weather claim them.

Its not spring till you can see the ground here.....

Around here is is safe to plant after March 15th.

we already have mosquitos!!! I'll take a chance on anything but my brugs:) not quite yet.....

Well, I must confess I will take chances with my Brugmansia, but only those I have more than one of. Thankfully that includes the majority of the Brugmansia I have. I may not have a lot of varieties, but those varieties I do have I generally have in large enough numbers to enable on to be a seed bearer and the other to be a pollen bearer. If I have an extra one, then that is one I would put in the ground a month or so early and hope only the leaves got bitten in a minor freeze.

Brugman, going to 35 next mon or tues night, if that's the worst it's going to be will be fine. i think i stay a few degrees warmer than you.