Single crocuses are popping up in unexpected places, dragged there by marauding squirrels in prior years. The wind is aggravating, but otherwise the cool-ish temps are good for slow-and-steady spring blooms: Small dutch irises ranging from speckled light blue through maroon to cobalt to purple. Tete-a-tete and Jetfire daffodils. Articulating hyacinths that should be yellow, red, and blue. Tiny blue scillas.
On the bad side, apparently the expensive arum lilies I bought years ago are super invasive non-native plants and people despair of removing them from their yards. Mine look healthy but aren't exactly taking over; in fact, they didn't even produce their orange seed stalks last year. It's just not wet enough around here for them, and strangely, if it gets too wet they also are unhappy. Some plants have amazingly deep roots and these supposedly do, too. I wonder if I should attempt to kill them. Or I could just change out the dirt around them for more of the toxic crumbled shale in which nothing grows; it masquerades as dirt around here. Pretty sure that would do the job.