It is a soggy day here in the Garden State, so I'm reporting on what's visible out the window or what I remember from working in the garden yesterday. As an aside, IMHO anyone who invents windshield wipers for eyeglasses will make a fortune. Muscari 'Valerie Finnis' with lovely soft, quite pale blue flowers, two nice groups. Narcissus - about 1,400 Narcissus poeticus in bloom, cultivars from recurvuus and 'Old Pheasant Eye' to 'Cantabile' and 'Felindre'. Lots of cyclamineus as I am especially fond of them; 'Dove Wings' & 'Jenny' & 'Foundling' for sure, I'm blocking other names. 'Ice Follies' is in bloom. Hyacinths on the way out - these are repeaters from previous years' plantings, including forced potfuls that receive a second career in the garden. Natives (natural and introduced) in my garden: Erythronium americanum is in bloom, as are Dicentra cucullaria and D. canadensis. Trillium grandiflorum is open, the doubles are still in bud. Sessile trilliums still tight in my garden; in a friend's garden not all that far away T. luteum is beautiful, already displaying its green flowers. He has them planted with blue Phlox divaricata, elegant combination. Lots of Mertensia virginica in my garden, mostly blue and several nice pinks. Claytonia virginica is sprinkled around in the woods, on neighbors' lawns, and roadside edges. Polygonatum japonicum 'Variegatum' is sending up its pink-flushed white asparagus-like shoots. Native polygonatum and smilacina are up and unfurling their leaves. Arisarum proboscoideum has tiny little flower buds just forming - how do I know? I dug and moved 5 tiny tubers in yesterday's deluge. Arisaema thunbergii is up, but I don't recall any flowers yet. Paeonia obovata 'Alba' is budded up, as is P. smouthii. Or maybe the latter is 'Early Scout'. In either case it is a tenuifolia hybrid, with nicely cut foliage and satin-shiny deep red single flowers on a short plant. Arum italicum 'Pictum' foliage still looks very good. Judy in zone 6 where the trees are filling their canopies with a haze of tender green