This seems like the right place for the Secret Garden quote!

"They are daffodils and lilies and snowdrops. They are working in the earth now--pushing up pale green points because the spring is coming."

"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like? You don't see it in rooms if you are ill."

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth," said Mary.

There are bulbs doing that in Mom's garden, to, though since her mulch is now a solid layer of sonned black maple leaves, it's like it lifting an entire (half-rotten) blanket in sheets.