anyone seen a snowdrop yet?

Three cornered leek is coming into bloom here. Easy to confuse with wild garlic or a white bluebell. Delicate white bells with long, lush grass-like foliage that smells of onions. I think that the story about how the leek became the emblem of Wales must relate to this plant and not the leek that we grow. I don't think an army of welshmen, hundreds of years ago, would have invaded a smallholding to gather leeks to put in their helmets to distinguish themselves from the enemy. But grabbing a bunch of three cornered leeks from the wild a lot more plausible.

On Saturday my weeping cherry was bare. It is now a mass of blossom.
Lovely!

Snowdrops are over and the snowflakes (leucojums), which look just like big snowdrops, are just beginning to bloom. The big untidy leaves of aliums are shooting up but it will be months before the flowers appear. The daffs in pots are now showing yellow and may well be out by the end of the day. Unfortunately the big winners are the wretched Spanish bluebells which insist on colonising the garden no matter what I do to try to deter them. Any advice?

My snowdrops are over. Daffodils just opening. No budburst on silver birch yet.

Blackthorn isn't very common here either. I've wondered if it doesn't like a too wet environment, but I think it thrives in Eire, so perhaps its absence is more to do with the soil here?

Having moved I am noticing the lateness of the blackthorn. Wondering if the local genes are more late flowering than in chillier east anglia. It's probably my favourite spring blossom, but only the odd sighting up here so far.

Still lots of snowdrops out in the lanes & churchyards of Pembrokeshire along with loads of daffodils of course.

My garden is the same as *NINA"s , looks a picture !

Everything is so forward this year I've already started staking the delphiniums.

In previous years mine have only flowered in August/September, nina!
Perhaps it's down to the lack of frost this winter?

Ana I have just Googled the lilies only to find that I have some in flower too I didn't know what they were as they were from a friend.

Spotted a patch of wood anemones today Snowdrops (some) still out as well as daffodils.

Why are my kaffir lilies in full flower?

Snowdrops and crocuses have been and gone, loads of daffs out also primroses, grape hyacinths, and a couple of tulips.
In Kent.

Im in Newcastle and ours have been out for weeks and are now dead, daffs out now and crocus been out for weeks

i just discovered quite many snowdrops on my front lawn. they are growing out of a small bulb. i have never planted them nor have i ever seen them on my lawn before. any comments

Hope that your backside survived as well JessM

Saw thousands yesterday when doing my gardening stint. Which is at last getting a bit less knackering. They are nearly all the little wild type ones I like best. The ones i liberated from a blanket of dead ferns last week were looking happy. They are tough little beasts. At one point I landed on my backside on a little clump and even they survived.

St Williams Church in Pilling has hundreds in the churchyard

N. Somerset here. Next door have snowdrops, I have catkins and an apricot in bloom (stupid tree!)

It just shows that even with a few close counties [Wiltshire and Glos and Oxfordshire] you can get such different results. In fact even a few miles can make a difference, as can the soil and if you are sheltered or not.Nice to see my snowdrops at last !

My primroses have started to bloom. Half a dozen plants are in full bloom and the rest have opening buds.

Lots of snowdrops out here on cold, very wet clay in North Wiltshire. And there are more catkins than I can ever remember. Usually I would expect a few primroses too but nary a one.

My very large snowdrops were out two weeks ago and the smaller ones appeared at the weekend. That's fine, but the seeds in the bird feeder that started sprouting due to all the rain are not at all welcome. And thye birds don't like the green shoots either!

We have a few in our garden, noticed them at the weekend. Today I spied some cornflower (very small flowers though) in my wildlife tub and a tiny campanula in flower in a pot.

At last we have snowdrops! They seem to be coming up flower first. Just bursting through really fast!