I should have taken a picture...,

[courier_iii]

But I didn't.

What's more important though is the simple fact.

My weeping cherry has it's first, exactly one, open blossom, but, with many more to follow.

Spring has happened, it's the awakening that we all really need right now.

.... and the garlic has sprouted as well, there are at least a dozen visible above the mulch - [of the more than 40

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[faargenwelsh]

thank you

[sawguy]

Ahhh spring is in the air

[nsingman]

I love this sort of news! My beauteous and oft-praised jungle_goddess has been doing quite a bit of container gardening at the house in Lithonia, and I love hearing about her plants flowering and growing.

[seraphene]

The cherry blossoms bloomed early in Japan this year. I wonder if they’ll be early in Australia, too.

[courier_iii]

My first boyhood home was in Belleville, NJ, just north of Newark.
Branch brook Park straddles the border of both and has a very large collection of cherry blossom trees.
More in fact than in Washington, DC.
There's a festival - now - but virtual this year.
The blossoms look like this:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=newark+cherry+blossom&qpvt=newark+cherry+blossom&form=IARRSM&first=1&tsc=ImageBasicHover

Question - Since Australia is south of the equator, when do the trees blossom?

[seraphene]

Beautiful!

We get them blooming in August, usually. It’s interesting how the seasons aren’t exactly 6 months apart (even for, as you mentioned, places on similar-but-opposite latitude).