In this extended period of warm, spring-like weather, plants are emerging (and some are blooming) a couple of weeks or more earlier than last year, which was an early spring itself.
Seedlings started last year of Thlaspi zaffranii, an endemic from the island of Crete, are looking fine after the winter:
Unknown yellow-flowered Draba in bud:
Buds on Townsendia nuttallii, Douglasia montana and on Saxifraga 'Allendale Charm':
Some recently-emerged growth on Primula algida; a native dandelion, Taraxacum species, from the local high alpine zone (new foliage actually started on this one some weeks ago); Callianthemum aff. kernerianum:
Plantago nivalis, Oxytropis campanulata and Oxytropis multiceps:
