The Tulips Have Arrived

It's about 35 degrees out and there's still close to a foot of snow cover in most of the yard, though it has melted a lot in the past two days. Adam and I took a walk around the yard today to see if anything is awake yet, and we spotted the tulips on the south side of the house and a couple teeny tiny bloodroot shoots. Here are the tulips.

I checked my garden journal and it looks like this year is actually pretty similar to last spring. Here's an entry from 3/23/13:

"Tulips are coming up. However, because we still have around 12" of snow in the yard, the bunnies don't have anything else to eat so they've munched all the tops of the tulip leaves. Weather has been unseasonably cool. It's currently snowing."

The only real difference between last year and this year is that I think more of the bunnies died this winter because of the extreme cold. I have not noticed as much rabbit damage this spring so far. Of course, if you compare to 2012, it's quite different. According to my journal, I spotted tulips on 2/19/12 and the first one was blooming on 3/24/12.


Update on my seed venture:

My first seeds sprouted about 7 days after i planted them and now have two tiny leaves. I planted additional seeds today.