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You know that Spring has truly arrived once you see Snowdrops and Crocus’ coming up in peoples gardens!

My crocus’ have made their first appearance today. Two tiny little flowers in the sunniest patch of my backyard lawn.

Actually there might be crocus all over the place. We have a lot of leaves from the neighbors maple tree in our gardening beds (just a light dusting of ones that fell in the fall that we didn’t clean up) and at the edges of the raised garden beds. It’s at the edges of the lawn near the stones of the raised garden beds that I planted the crocus bulbs, so there might very well be several plants under those leaves.

I think I might go out into the garden this afternoon and rake up the leaves, rake the lawn and perhaps clear out some of the dead foliage in the garden beds. The weather forecast for the next weeks says that it will be above freezing during the day and zero at night most nights for the next week with only one night well below zero … so I think it’s finally safe to get out there and do a little garden work.

I won’t prune the roses yet. It’s still far too early to do that. However, I suspect with this warmer than average March we’ve had the roses and other shrubs and trees in the area will come out of dormancy at least a week if not two weeks earlier than they normally do … well if the weather holds, that is. I mean, I can already see some leaf buds on many of my roses.

How is your garden doing this Spring? Have you noticed that a few of your plants are blooming or coming out of dormancy a little earlier than normal?