Spring is fixin' to spring!

What a difference a few nights of 40+ degrees (instead of 20s and 30s) can make. I just took a stroll around some of my flower beds, and the daylilies are popping up everywhere, as are the foxgloves, myosotis, prunella, hesperis, lychnis, obedient plants, yarrow, geraniums, and on and on.

Woohoo! (Oooops! Sorry to rub it in for those of you further north!!! Dori, I see you warming up that tarpot, LOL! That's okay - I'll take the tar and feathers just to share my glee in seeing all my babies popping up and waving hi to me!)

So what's sprouting in everybody else's neck of the woods?

Vols this winter has been really mild here! I have daffs and tulips,hyacinths bulbs up and most of my plants are all popping up-sedums,columbines,poppies,foxgloves,daisies-everything is getting ready to start growing! The snow is gone-Ive been weeding and even transplanted some bees balm and sweetpeas yesterday! Ive even shut the stove off under the tarpot-LOL-but if it snows again-HEATS ON!
I cant wait-Im admitting it-I have spring FEVER! ahhhhh

Go_vols, please give me some warning before you post something like this. My drool is gumming up the keyboard. I need time to place a dust cover over it.

You know, by the time my plants start to immerge, most of you will consider it passe. Who will I brag to! If I send you photos of tulips, you'll say, "Been there, done that!" I guess I need to start a thread to find out who else in hip deep in snow!

My daylilies are beggining to show themselves - unusually early. Also, I think I saw the red maples beginning to bloom in Concord (slightly warmer there) and I know I saw some pussy willow! Early spring for us.

Weezin - Me! (waving arms wildly) You can brag to me, and I'll brag to you. I'm in the same boat you are. Our snows not hip deep though, been in the upper 30's and lower 40's for the past two days and lots of it disappeared. I can see bare ground in places again.

OK, JoanJ, here we go:

Hi, JoanJ: Put on my snowshoes and went for a walk through my garden, and guess what?..the icicles are starting to come up! I'm fertilizing them with a light spray of dog pee and an occasional fallen branch. I can look forward to another month of their beauty beauty before they die back and those green things start coming up. How about you?

Weezin and Joan, I promise I'll not read sarcasm into the sympathy you send my way in August, when I'm complaining about the sweltering, oppressive humidity and heat... and the water bill to keep everything from becoming parched... and the endless weeds that grow overnight, sans rain... and, well - you get the picture.

(I used to live in Colorado, which has a similar climate to Weezin, I think - winters were a bear, but summers made up for it. I kept a lightweight blankie on my bed all summer, and of course we didn't have air conditioning - one window fan was enough to pull a good breeze through the house. Now THAT was some great weather! Kinda makes up for the long winters - at least a little.)

My icicles are doing their thing already. I just love it. Drip...Drip...Drip... I have a gorgeous snowbank along the east side of my house, and when the icicles drip on it, it's making neat holes in the snow. Resembles a giant hunk of swiss cheese. I just know there's hostas under there waiting to pop up and greet me.

I'm looking at another month at least before things will start to green up again. I still have 9 weeks left before I can plant most things outside, and then will have to keep a close eye on the weather and have lots of covers on hand. Mother Nature has an attitude sometimes, and she's been known to slap our hands as late as the middle of June. I hope she's in a better mood this year.

Spring has sprung in NE Texas......mid 80's this afternoon....much to do! Tulips, daffs, roses all raring to go, seedilings popping everywhere...the robins and the bluebirds are having a party on the lawn! Day Lilies are waving to passersby.....whoee....ain't it fun! Got the hostas out yesterday, and working on the new canna bed!

"eyes"

Hey, Weez and Joan:

What kind of cheese you want with that whine? :-)

I just got in from running the dog. Got several wilding up and blooming (you should see the white violets). And Friend Wife's bulb bed has sprung, with both dwarf iris and hyacinths in bloom.

And, in case you're wondering, I am north of Go_Vols. LOL

Brook: A little gouda would be nice...on a cracker, please? Sounds like JoanJ would prefer Swiss.

JoanJ: Sounds like we have similar conditions, but I bet you get a lot hotter in the summer. If it gets up to 70 degrees around here, we're all tearing off our clothes and screaming about global warming! We've got cool soil, cool weather, and long days...what a combo! I can usually set out plants by June 1, but occasionally have had to use row cover.

Go_vols: I guess it's the old "grass is greener" issue. Right now your grass is greener, and later on my grass is greener! By the time you are sweltering, I'll be seeing the fruits of my labor and sending pics and bragging, so it's all fair, I guess...and I can wait if I have to...I guess.

I have plum and pear trees blooming.We've got violets and tons of dafs. I banished all but my most delicate plants to the front porch today.If it frosts,I'll just throw a blanket over 'em and go on.

Dori will really get the fires under that tar pot going when I tell ya'll that today was the first official barefoot day!Yep,77 degrees and I went barefoot!Had a tee shirt and shorts on and was in hog heaven.

Hmmmph!

Ahhhh yes Joan, But in the same vein...I'll have to start mowing in about 2 weeks, if I can hold off that long.And there goes my summer..it seems that all I do is mow.

LOL! Have fun Melody.

Yep a beautiful barefoot 75 degrees here today too! I just love it! Iris reticulata's gone by, crocus pulmonaria's almost gone by day lilies and oriental liles are all up and growing and so much more. Sure hope Ma nature doesn't surprise us these last couple weeks of "winter". My last frost isn't really until then end of the first week of April, so I've got at least three more weeks to try and be nice to her. :)

Mel, you'd better start diggin' up sod this spring and get rid of more grass! hehehe. My lawn is slowly shrinking.

CLICK-goes the stove! =]

Now Dori, hehehehe (ducking). Just come right on down here and enjoy this weather with me. You can leave the shoes at home. :)~

I did wear shorts, but didn't go barefoot I could have, I guess, but I needed shoes to dig out the new asparagus bed, and get it ready to plant. Which I'm glad to say it's done! The asparagus are planted in a nice mix of mushroom compost, loam and some of our "wonderful" clay; and the extra topsoil (to keep piling on them when they start to grow) is standing by.