"madgard" wrote in message
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crocuses are tough, they will endure come a cold snap (we're not near out
of
the woods here in Eastern Tennessee, and it got up to 72o today.......)

A few hundred miles up the ridge from you (Eastern Panhandle of WV) it only
made 58o, but that was enough to shrink the snow cover by half. Two clumps
of crocuses and the first daffodil spears appeared. At last. And some leeks
in my garden bed, which, now in their third year, have finally grown as
thick as a person's thumb.