On my last trip over to the farm to move a few more things, the daffodils were starting to bud. every year they come up before the snow is all gone and then it thaws and they keep on growing and blooming and the snow comes again and buries them and this goes on and on. They are the only flower I could rely on as the deer eat any and everything else. Last year the yearlings ate the day lilly buds off each day as they appeared, then they started in on the leaves. I had planted tulips the fall before last and I looked out one day and there they were, pinching off the buds before I even had a chance to see them coming up.