Burgeoning

We're observing more leaves of single jonquils, new leaves on frost-touched lantanas, more leaves of Dutch iris, and now hyacinth leaves, for the first time this year, in three of the four locations where we'd expect to see them. There's the "what flowers?" thing going on out front, where people deliberately march their dogs over low fences and through flower beds with germinating seeds. Needless to say, these aren't the people who would respect actual blooms, either, and are a large part of the reason that we've more or less abandoned doing much new out front.