The weather remains warm for Ontario in February, going a few degrees Celsius above freezing each day. It should be good for the more tender perennials though lack of an insulating snow cover may not help.
I still hear after all these decades since I left, that grey squirrels are still wreaking havoc with the native red squirrel population in England. Here, they seem to get along well together. The red squirrels have barely hibernated at all, but the greys (mostly black around here – an Ontario variant) have only been out on the warmest days. But there are more fights within species than across.

As you can see, not much snow cover and there was less a week ago.
So here’s hoping it will continue and I can get my seeds into the greenhouse a week or two earlier than normal. It’s usually around now I start worrying I planted too soon but by late May I’m usually wishing I’d done more, sooner.
I like to have a few tomatoes in flower before they’re ready for planting; otherwise it is too long a wait for fruit. These ones may be in time.

and of course you need basil for tomatoes:

I have a few more: rosemary, snapdragons, castor-oil plant (ricinus) and delphiniums but their pictures didn’t work out. Somebody has borrowed all my SLR lenses for a film-shoot so these were with my little Nikon point-and-shoot.