Nice pics! Amazing, what just 3-4 days of nice weather does. The red maples have awoken from their slumber and are in full bloom. Also noticed a small number of cherries beginning to bloom.

Lovely blue sky! Here's a Cornus mas seen last week on a very dull day.

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Nice Cornus mas, floral -- very early bloomer. Fruit any good to eat?

Fruit are edible aka Cornelian cherry. But I've never tasted it. This one's on the banks of the Thames some way from where I live.

AP?
My 'Jelena' was in full bloom this week, which is late but not too late. Spring is slow here in a normal year.
Beng how old is your Lacebark Elm? How tall is it in total, hard to tell from that picture.

Oh, of course, 'Arnold Promise'.

David, it's an Allee II -- 10 yrs and ~30' tall. When young, it got some very nasty canker wounds on the trunk at the same time my Valley Forge Amer elm died in a month from elm yellows. My guess is it got attacked by elm yellows, but fought it off. No problems since.

Every Sib/Slippery elm hybrid around here is dying/dead from elm yellows, tho the pure Sib elms seem resistant.

Interesting, I'll have to keep an eye out for that...but like you say, it should be resistant.
Mine is growing really fast, I almost wish I'd bought another one though of course the point of my mini-arboretum is to have a variety of plants, and for example I've just decided which of my 3 large mature American hollies is going to have to go one day. (hint, the one that had absolutely no bronzing from this cold winter weather LOL. Yep, there was even slight bronzing of native American Hollies. That's cold!)

Well....technically spring, but as you can see, winter hangs on. Not that unusual for late March:

I took this pic this morning in Maryland. Notice the red flowered WH to the left don't show up as much, partly because they retain the leaves.

The red flowering witchhazels need to be back lighted by the sun . I prefer the yellow ones and the best in my opinion is still 'Pallida'.

Not that anyone will care, but here is a seedling callery!

Rhododendron PJM and Pieris japonica, 'Valley Valentine'. Timber bamboo.
Spring is definitely here.
No snow this year but a light dusting in November. Highly unusual! The warmest I can remember. Not much snow in the Cascade Mountains. I'm thinking water restrictions this summer.
Mike

Mike, my PJM Rhodies bloom in early May!

Interesting Sam -- the wild witch hazels in the VA mountains always bloomed in mid-Nov.

The first hint of Spring in the woods is a large Red Maple near my house.

Winter's icy talons are slowly losing their grip. Pic taken today of Cornelian Cherry nr Capital Columns at Nat'l Arboreum.

Nice picture, Sam. You are fortunate to live close by the National Arboretum.
I was lucky to spend an entire summer day there a little over twenty years ago. I entered at the main entrance and ended up in a newspaper parking lot near the Gotelli Conifer Collection, where I got a ride to the subway and back to where I was staying in Georgetown. One day was not near enough!
Mike

Yesterday was one of the coldest non-snowing days in late March I can remember -- low in morning was 14F & high of only briefly 30F even w/partial sun. Jeesh.

It's been so nice here I put some of my orchids out for the rest of the Spring and Summer. I don't expect any more freezes here in Zone 8 near Seattle.

Two Eastern Redbuds. They're especially pretty if we get a late snow.

Dogwood in full bloom. I grew it from seed. The magnolia was slow to bloom this year. I think most of the buds were completely frozen this winter. Those that did start blooming earlier were zapped when we hit 22 in late March. The variety is 'Black Tulip' Magnolia x soulangiana

Things are still slow to emerge here -- ridges show some reddish color from red maples (I'm a bit shocked at how much of the oak-hickory forests are polluted w/red maples). Weeping willows beginning to leaf too, but not much more than these things other than daffodils, pussy willows & such. Redbuds & dogwoods still weeks away.

At least cool-season grass is greening -- but that means mowing...

Shagbark hickory in its third year I believe

Two different Shellbark hickories in their 5th or 6th year

While everyone is sharing...
Magnolia 'Phelan Bright' - unaffected by both the winter and the last 2 night's flirtations with 32F. There was hard freezing as close as 10 miles away, and Oxford, PA, was 26F last night:

They aren't gigantic, but definitely bigger than the typical M. X soulangeana.

Camellia 'April Remembered':