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.