Usually show up in the garden a couple weeks before they do in the woods.
Very jealous. They're so hit-or-miss in Colorado. I've only seen a couple in years of foraging.
We see them most years but they're very spotty when the spring is abnormally hot or there wasn't much snowfall.
That's super cool, I want to try morels but I haven't managed to find any.
I find that the timing has to be just right for your location. We find them usually beginning or middle of june, sometimes later, but most people associate them with the month of may as in the "may mushroom" and see people south of our location finding them earlier, even april. These morels grow right up against my house so its a warmer and wetter microclimate so you won't find them in the mountains yet because it hasn't warmed up enough. We also check our spots a couple times a week, especially after finding them in the garden. I look for Verpas, a morel lookalike that fruits usually a couple weeks before we find the real morels. I also take in to consideration other things like precipitation, previous winter's snow fall, and how hot the spring has been in my area.