Sometimes you just have to take a step back, and smell the....

[Siwsan]

and the

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'd love to smell them if I had some.

So far I mostly have cold mud.

[Siwsan]

2. Now I'm just waiting for the tulips to bloom

I've got scores of daffodils, this year. After our hideous winter, seeing them is like medicine.

[notadmblnd]

3. Hyacinths have a nice smell. Daffodils, not so much

nt

[Siwsan]

6. I have so many daffs, it can get overpowering when I'm in the garden

I'd love more hyacinths. They don't seem to multiply as fast as the daffs.

[notadmblnd]

7. Lilacs is the scent I could drown myself in

Too early for lilcas yet though.

[Siwsan]

9. I have a lilac and mock orange trees right outside of my bedroom window

If the wind blows just right, the scent is amazing

[hobbit709]

4. I only got this.

[Siwsan]

5. Wow!

I've got a long wait before I have roses.

[MerryBlooms]

8. Lovely!

Isn't spring glorious! My hyacinths got snowed on and froze, so they're not looking too great. However, the rest of our early springers-- daffys, crocs, bleeding hearts, lily of the valley, iris, tulips, etc... all look as though they came through ok and I cannot wait for them to start blooming! Of course the violets are up and blooming all over, so sweet. It's been a long hard winter up here in NE Illinois.

[Siwsan]

10. We had the same hard winter in Michigan

I'm surprised the flowers are as abundant as they are, this year. The bulbs must LOVE the cold. However, except for a few flowers, the forsythia still hasn't bloomed.

[MerryBlooms]

12. Ours hasn't bloomed either, but it and the hydrangea have signs of life.

You folks had it even worse than we did.
The azaleas don't look too hot, and I don't know about my rhubarb yet, but all else seems to come through ok- time will tell.

[2naSalit]

11. *sigh*

We still have lots of icy snow on the ground, it will be weeks before we get ours to enjoy. But with all that ground water, the wild orchids will be awesome come June/July. Well worth the wait... I guess.

Thanks for sharing.

[Siwsan]

13. I still haven't packed away my Winter wardrobe

We had snow, just a week ago Tuesday. A couple of days later, it was 70. I

[2naSalit]

14. Funny you should mention that...

I put up the majority of my winter gear along with ski stuff and out my bicycle and rode it around all day Monday, it was in the 50s and nice. But then we had thunderstorms on Tuesday and it's been in the 30s at best, right now we've got some heavy, wet snow coming down... already an inch on the ground in the past half hour.

It'll be nice pretty soon, it's part of the bargain of living at 7,000ft. Wouldn't trade it for anything, besides, we'll probably skate past fire season unscathed, I hope.