i love crocosmia! MIne is still dormant. Here the first narcissus popped open it's paper white blooms yesterday (out doors) and the Hyacinth on the window sill is in full bloom. I had a succulent type flower, the common name is Gypsy Earrings, bloomed a couple of weeks ago. I have written cactus and succulent experts with photos tring to find more info, scientific name, etc and still no luck. It may be a Tillandsia, brommiliad. Christmas cactus have been puttinig out their hot pink flowers since december, as have the Cyclamen (both indoors) and the Daphnia buds are beginning to swell. They are the most fragrant flower i know of, and bring many a deep inhalation in feb and march! I took out a bed of day lillies which were growinig in a shaded area by my front door and replaced with Azaleqas, which will be full of color very soon! the containers of ornamental kale, calendula and primrose are doing their best to brighten up the winter on my porch, and daffydills are poking up and tulips are ready to do the same. I have been planting daffys and narcissus all around the circumference of the labyrinth which i have constructed in my yard. I planted corn, (an amazing maize maze)an Indian variety (multi colored) which is a sweet corn to be eaten when soft, not one of those you wait til it is hard and dry to use, also there are fava beans in the circular rows of the Labyrinth. The cherries and apples have been pruned as have the grapes, and wreaths made of the vines! ready for next christmas when i will lace bay laurel branches and toyon berries in the vines for holiday fragrant decor! The iris and day lilies are sending up shoots and buds are beginning to swell on quince, forsythia and star magnolia....and rain clouds are beginnig to form so i should get out there and do some stuff before it all gets wet!