Emerging Sweetpeas

My sweetpeas are starting to come up:

I don't remember exactly when I planted them. I know it was later than St Patrick's day - maybe a couple of weeks later. But whenever it was, it was obviously a little later than I should, because look at this:

These are sweetpeas from seeds that fell onto the gravel path. They sat in the gravel all through summer, then germinated and started growing when they were ready.