About a month ago, My wrote to the list asking if bulbs were blooming early this year in California. I wrote back saying that everything here in San Jose was on schedule. My, I apologize. I was wrong. Although my fall-blooming stuff was on schedule, many of the spring blooming bulbs are now blooming a month or more ahead of schedule. The spring Moraeas are now starting to bloom, and several spring Romuleas are in full bloom. Most of these would bloom in March in a typical year. I don't know if the cause is the dry weather we've had for much of the winter, or the milder average temps (other than a nasty freeze at the end of last year), or something else. But definitely stuff is blooming early. Back in December I was worried that the freeze might actually delay blooming. Shows how much I know ;-) Is anyone else seeing early blooms this year? Mike San Jose, CA Zone 9, min temp 20F (-7C)