I just call everything I have daffodils no matter what the bag of bulbs said. I am so ready for spring even though I am wishing too early. Daffs don't usually open until early April here, some years later.

So things are a bit ahead of schedule there too, that's interesting. Here, it's the Daffodils that are really ahead, the Tulips look about like they normally would at this time.

I don't think that the daffs are ahead of schedule. I always have afew by the south side of the house open much earlier than the rest, it is a very sheltered spot. Then those ones out in the front (pics posted March 24th on this thread) are of early daffs Rijnveld's Early Sensation which I only planted last fall, I put 100 in by that trellis. There must be some of them in the daff mix too as some are blooming on the other side.

Make sure you put up photos of the Lupines, Rita, they're something I've always wanted to grow, they're so pretty!

Neal, you might be right with the Tahiti....

Hoary puccoon is a wildflower here, so can't take any credit for it. It starts pretty early and continues for quite a while.

Walked down to the lake today and saw our 2 Trilliums are starting (they never seem to multiply) and our trout lilies are fully leaved out too, just a sea of them. I'll have to take the camera down there tomorrow, if it stops raining!

We're earlier by about a week judging by my photos from last year- all my early daff photos are marked 4/7.

I don't know how the Lupines will do yet. The ones coming up are in a very sheltered spot near the foundation on the south side of the house. I got those as small mail order plants from Bluestone last spring.

What started by Lupine crazies were the Lupines I bought locally potted and ready to bloom. Of those the two plants I but in a garden in the back died by the end of summer before the fall even got here.

Then the little plants I bought from American Meadows seem to have died by last fall too.

That leaves me with the potted plants I put in the driveway side yard garden that was renamed the lupine garden. Thats were the potted plants were put in. The effect when they bloomed was just stunning if I do say so myself. But they are not growing yet as it is simply too early. So it is wait and see and hope they come up.

I've read (posts from gardeners who grow them) that they tend to be short lived, and reseed themselves, creating a permanent presence in the garden that way. That may explain what happened to the blooming plants. Did the blooms produce seed pods? I suspect the little ones from Bluestone will bloom nicely this year.

I read that too about short lived. But Geez, I only put mine in last year so if they don't come up that is really short lived. I never let them go to seed last year and cut off the blooms as they finished. But if my small Bluestone plants bloom this year I will let them seed so hopefully I can always have new plants starting.

Don't know what I am going to do about the other ones yet.

Lupins are short lived here too (5 years at best) but they do readily self sow and cross polinate and to make some scrumpous colours. You never know what colour combos you might get.

Great pictures everyone. everything in my gardenis about a month behind and now we will be in the 90's this weeks so I am betting a lot of my daffs will be goners. Usually most of them are done blooming by now but with the crazy cold weather we had so late in Feb everything was thrown off schedule

Hi Marie (waving madly). We are still so snowfull. Normally the snowdrops and crocii would be emerging but only snowdunes. Methinks the robins turned around and went back to FL

Well I just heard we will be 97 by Fridays. My snow drops will melt along with the crocus and daffs that are so late to bloom

oh my goodness! You go directly from winter to summer, don't you?

While it is a blessing to see warm temps, it sure is sad to see the spring bulb blooms melt away so quickly. Some years we get those ideal springs when the warming is gradual and nights remain cool, and the blooms seem to last and last. But just as often it goes from winter to summer, and they're all up, bloomed out, and gone before you know it.

Rita, I forgot to mention, I kinda wondered if the Lupines that were in bud when they were planted would be even shorter lived than usual. They're not a plant that I've seen or heard of being sold in that stage of development. I've had that happen with Rudbeckia purchased as a potted plant, in bloom. They're also short lived, and those I had planted just finished blooming and melted away. I think you'll see better results from seed and from the Bluestone plants.

My only experience with seed is from the annual Lupines. While I tried those last summer I am sure it was too late in the year and already hot. So they came up but never bloomed and just kind of sat there until I pulled them out. I sowed some this year already but they haven't come up yet.

I had never seen potted Lupines before I found them at this one particular out of the way (for me) nursery that I usually only visit once or twice a year in the spring. I tell you they were just so absolutely stunning that if they don't come up (not looking like they are going to) I will try again.

Spring in the heartlandIce FolliesJetfire (Ithink)

Hyacinths

this is the first of my fancy new orange treumpet Daffs to bloom. It is a small flower but so pretty. I think this one is called MARIA.

Beauties, Jmoth and Rita!

Very luvly.

rita, I think the daff with the multiple flowers may be Avalanche. Such wonderful pictures, y'all:) Daffs and tulips in bloom here. Must get out with the camera. I even have a couple of TB iris open...I know, not a bulb!