My first tulips of the season

Took this yesterday...

Another shot...

Aren't these great harbingers of spring? The tulip festival here at Wooden Shoe Bulb Company is about ready to kick off. We so look forward to this each spring.

When do Tulips start blooming in Oregon? Are they starting to bloom now?

They sure are. I love all the various spring bulbs that are blooming here now, crocus, snowdrops, wood hyacinths, tulips, daffodils of many varied sorts, ipheion, grape hyacinths, regular hyacinths that smell so yummy. Soon there will be irises of all sorts. I think Georgia is probably very similar. What do you have blooming now, yvana?

I have hyacinths, muscari, a couple of tulips right now. My wood hyacinths haven't started yet. The crocus is about finished blooming, they started Feb 3rd. I have some types of daffodils blooming and some are just coming out of the ground.
I just realized you are in 8b!! How can I be in 7b and way up in Oregon be 8b?! I thought it was cold up there!!
yvana ;)

I live in a valley between the Coast Range and the Cascade Mountains called the Willamette Valley. We are about 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Our climate is very influenced by the Japanese Current. We have get lots of rain. And we are really quite temperate. To the east across the Cascades it is more desert like and more extremes in the temperatures. The Willamette Valley is very fertile and green. I have heard it compared to parts of England. We don't see snow very often in the Valley but we can get to it relatively quickly by getting up into the Cascades. We don't usually get extremely hot or humid. Our one biggest complaint is so much rain. It doesn't come in buckets but softer and more prolonged days of wet.