I had to do a double take after the gandles' post, last year at this time we were under a foot of snow, this year the dogwoods are blooming in the woods that i can see from my window(pretty early!), the lilacs have bared their flower buds, my cherry and apple trees will likely bloom if this warm spell keeps up, there's a whole lotta green out there and i've already been eaten alive by mosquitoes(i live next to a swamp)...but i know that hard frosts can come here as late as May 27th, though our official date is the 20th...the strawberries are wiser, they've got leaves but not a lot of flowerbuds yet.

So i'm way happy for the extra time to work on the garden, especially since i'm movin a lot slower these days, but i can't help but think that it's gonna even out next month, when i got a couple hundred tender baby veg and flower plants that need to go out...;~(

I would say the oaks blooming (yellow powder and sneezing) and the dogwoods, but this year nothing goes in order. I think this year it is mowing the lawn! I went into summer training mode on Monday and mowed the front lawn.

We've turned green here in Georgia.
Pollen on everything.
It's a spring thing.

The Forsythia blooms just after the Crocus and Daffodils,
then comes the Bradford Pears and Cherry trees.
Dogwoods and Azaleas and the Rhododendrons.
Shoot, I get giddy just thinking about it.

anneliese, geeze, I know that the pines have yellow powder pollen, but now you have introduced the oaks as sneezing powder.
Lol, those trees are busy doing their thing in spring, I better get busy doing my stuff.