Spring flowers have a tough life in our part of the country. It’s a rare year when things like tulips have the opportunity to bloom. You can see by the bud on the tulip above that it was probably within a couple of days of opening up. However, spring weather sprung a hard frost on us last night and a winter weather storm left a couple of inches of snow over night.
We’re under a winter storm warning advisory through noon today. The snow that fell last night will most likely all be melted by noon, but it sounds like we have more headed our way.
Just the other day I was outside looking around the flower bed hoping to see signs of the two new bleeding hearts I planted last year. YEA! I was so excited to see they were both looking pretty good. I hope last night’s frost and snow doesn’t do them in.

I typically don’t get too excited to do much in our flower beds until about June. Now you know why (LOL)! The longer I let the fall leaves stay around the longer the new little plants have a lit bit of protection from our spring weather.