While it is also the earliest spring ever here for crocus to start blooming, it is nowhere near as advanced as the much more southerly and/or warmer areas we've been seeing here... but things are progressing!
1) There will be flowers open today on the most precocious of various self-seeded Hepatica nobilis; the leaves on hepatica take quite a beating over the winter here, so it seems it is only much warmer areas that can produce those photos showing spectacular flowers and beautiful leaves at the same time!
2) Pulsatilla vernalis
3) Potentilla nivea
4) Potentilla porphyrantha
5) Calyptridium umbellatum (evergreen)
6) Inula rhizocephalum
7)Caltha leptosepala
8 ) Flower buds on Androsace carnea alba; Aethionema saxatile in the background; both are evergreen
9) Furry little nubbins on Pulsatilla campanella
10) Gentiana verna is evergreen
