Daffodil Foliage Emerges - Two Weeks Later Than Normal - March 2025

 Below is a photo of the small colony of yellow daffodils that we inherited in our backyard.  They've sort-of naturalized a bit and have moved over time - but they're always in the bed behind the Northern Red Oak tree on the south side of the lawn.   The clumps of those strap-like tips are a sure sign of Spring:

Last year, these were further along by early March.  And were blooming the first week of April.  We're a week away from April and these are no-where-close to blooming.  The flower buds haven't even come up.  

I don't know what caused the slower-to-emerge cycle, but I'm noting it for everything else.  

We had a VERY MILD Winter from December 2023 to March 2024.  So much so, that the ground was un-frozen enough for me to begin excavation of the pizza oven in February.  February!  

I'll see if this two-week delay holds true to other perennials this Spring.