Peonies are up, hosta is poking purple & green fingers up through the soil, astilbe and agastache are sending up new growth, there are buds on my Lenten rose and the bleeding heart is 8 inches tall already. This is MAY weather in New England, not April!! Temp got up to 80 this afternoon in central CT--used my A/C in the car on the drive home from Easter dinner with friends & family.
Baptisia, meadow sage, brunnera, tall phlox, stokesia, daylilies & clematis are all showing green new growth. Flowering trees and shrubs that normally bloom in early May are already in full bloom here.
Wish I knew how to post pictures--I took some gorgeous ones yesterday of the daffodils blooming.

Last year april was nicer than may, or june.. june was DISMAL!

But Im trying to learn to enjoy the days you get, lol, not thats the hard part.

Last 3 days have been wonderful, sounds like tomorrow as well for half a day or so.. then some cooler rains coming in.

Oh well, Some of my daffs and a few pansies bloomed today.

All of my lettuce has sprouted, in 15 days or so I will be transplanting to the garden, I didn't even check the scallions yet.

Ive pretty much decided to keep adding daffs! Is there anything better!

Oh my aching back feels so good!!! Fantastic weather. My DH became a garden widow this weekend. :O)

that was a nice and long (took Thursday off) weekend. Lots of accomplishments: 36X4 feet potatoes bed - already planted, 17X4 lasagna bed - cooking, waiting for tomatoes and flowers, four huge containers filled with a special "Al's mix" (see Containers Forum), two of them already planted - ws'ed peas, beets, spinach and letuce. I was planting a few minutes ago in a rain. I could hear all those birds singing: "supper, supper, supper". All these in between preparation for Easter dinner, egg hunts, family'friends gatherings. Overall - good weekend.

Such bizarre weather!! Warm, sunny stretches alternating with deluges and floods (we still have about 8 roads closed in my town). March weather felt like April and now it feels like May. The woody plants seem to be breaking dormancy about 2 weeks early. I just hope we don't get a late freeze and it zaps the fruit trees and tender growth (not to mention, little WS sprouts)!