Are your daffs and crocus starting to show green?

I too noticed this morning that my double daffodils have poked up about an inch already.

Not surprising since yesterday & today the daytime temps hit 66 degrees!!!!

Lotsof mine are just starting to show through too, Breezy, and fortunately most are holding off sending stalks up. I had a couple in front that bloomed this time last year and most waited till the end of Feb or March. I pulled some dirt aside in several places and there are lots more just under the surface!

No crocus blooms yet but getting some leaves.

More peonies coming up wayyy too early!!

Oh no, those peonies are confused. I fear my hydrangeas are confused to; they're breaking dormancy :(

Well good luck gemini - especially with more cold coming that might not be a good thing :-(

Very pretty daffodils, Steve!

I just spotted a couple more in my front yard that will bloom in a day or two, along with a couple new varieties of crocus that are just opening up. Spring is on its way!

Lori

Nothing coming up here yet. I, too, planted some crocus in the yard, under one of the oak trees. 50 of them, I think, which isn't a lot, but wanted to try it. I didn't lift the turf, I just used my dabber and poked a hole way down in and put the bulb in, then filled in the hole with soil. Told hubby to mow that area extra short when he mowed for the last time last fall. I chose one of the earliest blooming crocus to plant there. (Tomas Barr's purple)

Can't wait to see your crocus lawn, kb. You make it sound easy to do! And I know it's not!

Steve--can't believe your peonies are that far along.

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It really wasn't that hard! The ground was soft, which made it much easier. I guess the hardest thing was keeping the bulb from flipping on me when I dropped it into the hole, because once it was down there, it was really difficult to turn it. When I got the set of tools from Smith and Hawken, and that dibber (dabber? Which is it anyway? LOL) was in there, I thought to myself, "What will I ever use that for?" By the fall, I knew. ;-)

Kylee

Fancy.

Hey- Thanks Lori for adding the 'Z. Bronze' to PlantFiles.

Gads, I can't wait for next fall's bulbs orders. Let us have spring first. I want at least 300 Chionodoxa...

Thanks ladyrowan, I have enjoyed your pretty crocuses also :-)

Yeah tabasco, and the ones in the picture are all first-year plants. I am surprised they have so many flower buds. The ones in the ground from last year have generally not come up yet, which is good, and hopefully they'll do well this year.

We got lots of rain last night and it is about 44 degrees here now. I went outside and saw lots of green tips poking through! This is getting exciting! Have one hyacinth starting to open up too.

Steve--with your touch with bulbs, I think you should enter something in the spring daffodil show--

The Texas Daffodil Society has a show every March at the Dallas Arboretum! Go for it!

And then there's the Peony Show, too!

I was just out walking around, and in my little microclimate area where I planted my Golden Bells daffodils, they are up about an inch! I had to move away the dried leaves that I'd put down as mulch to find them. It was toasty warm under there. Last year, not one single one made it where I planted them, so when Breck's replaced them, I put them here. Looking good! They are up against the house, between two bushes, on the south side. No wind. I put some poppy anemones there, too, since I lost almost all of those last year, too. No sign of those yet, though.

AND, the fall-blooming crocus are starting to pop through, but no sign of the early spring crocus yet.

I have noticied dafs and hyacinths maybe even a tulip, but no crocuses yet...

My daffodils are beginning to bloom....Spotted a few this week..

Larkie

I went out and did a circut today and to my utter amazement and great concern found two foxtail lilies poking through, one about an inch, the other maybe two inches. I'm concerned because they usually poke through in spring and then one has to monitor the weather and afford protection from freezes. Tomorrow I'll have to figure out some way to try and protect them, but to do that for a considerable length of time worries me in no small way. I think these foxtails are about at their northern limit.

Last spring saw the leaf-tips get buzzed by the frost here. I'd say mulch them deep & cool.

Thanks Kenton That's what I'll do - I think I'll add a shelter over the mulch to route rain and snow away as well.

I have about 40 daffodils about 1/2 inch up, and many of my perennials never fully died back. What a strange winter we are having!

Just checked things again, on this 56° day (it IS January, isn't it???) and as I said, the golden bells daffodils are up (none of my other varieties, though) and the fall-blooming crocus are up as well.

Daffodils...

Crocus zonatus 'Kotschyanus'....

wow, 56F today, kylee. here it's 53F.

kylee, "crocus zonatus 'kotschyanus'".... sounds like a magic spell =).

Lookin' good, Kylee. Annapet, it must be a "warm-spell," eh?

I have never had great luck with those darm fall-bloomers. I have some that mulitply, come up in the fall with evergreen leaves and all, but never bloom. The only flowers I've had were just after planting, but never after that. Some of my fall crocus are coming up now, too. Again, no flowers for that past who-knows-how-long. The only variety that I remember blooming the second year was rototilled!
Kenton

Very interesting about the foxtail lilies poking out. I will have to check on my new ones. Didn't know they were so sensitive to cold snaps/warm snaps.

My giant alliums are coming up all over. I suppose I will have t protect them too.

My giant alliums came up last fall! Just a little, then they stopped.

Thanks tabasco - I have not been to the Arboretum yet but I'll have to make the effort to drive over there this year. They always highlight it on the local TV stations during bloomtime.

I am in zone 5b. My daffodils and crocus are just emerging. The hellebores and the snowdrops have buds. I know these will do fine even when the unseasonably warm weather ends and we return to normal conditions. However I am very concerned to see my bleeding hearts starting to emerge. It is WAAAYYYY to early for them. I know they are going to get trashed by the inevitable snow and cold.

I'm sooo happy we finally got a dose of winter-like weather ~ cold rain all day and only 48°.

NoH2O, I know exactly what you mean. See my thread: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/572169/

My bleeding heart is doing the same.

Crocuses popping up!

Yeah Moby- pretty bad when 48 is a GOOD day in January as far north as you are! We've been in 60's for highs. Normal is about 10 degrees cooler.

Yes, it is quite strange to complain about nice weather and wish for your typical lousy weather. It think that that 48° was the first time in the last month that we had a high temp below 50°.

My sister's crocuses are already done blooming. :(

tabasco,

Some of my Crocus and ALL of my grape hyachinth have lots of green on them are a few inches high but no flowers. I was scared of losing my grapes, but after reading this post, I can rest easier. I haven't seen any dafs poking up yet.

I have pips! Brushed some leaves aside to find crocus foliage 2-3"tall. The established daffs are about 1", but none of the ones planted this fall. This has typically been my experience with newly planted bulbs, they often bloom a bit later the first year. I also saw what looks like a hyacinth about 1" tall, but in a place I did'nt plant hyacinths? In my bulb frenzy I may very well have done who knows what that I have no recollection of, LOL. So much for being organized!

spanish jonquil blooming already. this is from the garden this morning =). i still do brug walk in the rain.

That is perfection!

Or something really really close (wink.)
What makes it Spanish? -I suggest answering with a latin name or saying "El facto que vive en espana."

thanks, kylee.

kenton, i have no clue! that's all it said on the breck's packaging last year.

is it true that jonquils are native to spain and portugal?

Lovely annapet! I think various narcissus species are natives throughout Europe and Asia.

thanks, neal. this photo is a good reminder that i should plant more narc next planting season. i just love them.