Early Spring in Connecticut

The temperatures are creeping up slowly but surely. It is nippy out there right now. Yesterday morning when I headed out, because the sun and blue skies beckoned me with temptations of spring, it was barely 40, if even that. It was cold. I was glad of the lined leather gloves we use around here as work gloves. Today there is a possibility that it might reach the mid-50’s. With temps like that my plants are starting to come up, at least some of them. I thought I might give you a bit of a challenge this morning. I will provide four closeups and you can try to guess what they are. The reveal will follow.

Let’s start with two easy ones:

Now for the challenging ones:

Now for the reveals:

Daffodils almost ready to bloom.

Hardneck Chesnok Red Garlic that was planted last fall doing very well in early spring

Ronin looks awfully happy here. Yes, he is enjoying the catnip that is just coming up.

Bleeding hearts making an appearance. I planted these about 9 years ago and still have 3 of the 5 originally planted.