Everlasting: New Plant Growth Observed
Outside my front door are two stone planters, in which some vaguely-cabbage-looking plants grow every year, like clockwork.
This morning, I noticed it had started to come up… little buds poking through the soil.
According to my mother’s mother, the plant is called Everlasting. See encyclopedia reference here.
This does fly in the face of Punxsatawney Phil, but I’m all for an earlier spring. It is very early to see such plant growth, though — I hope there aren’t any more cold snaps to kill these young plants!
Edited to add: snow crocuses are also blooming.
i saw a whole tree full of robins today. it seems migration patterns are quite early now.
I have been hearing a lot more chirping lately; that seems to reinforce your “early migration” theory. January is usually not a songbird month, at least not in my memory.