even in my location near coastal water and usually extra chilly in winter and spring (but not extra cold...) plants are a month ahead of where they would usually be. The garden looks like it would in early March. 'Peggy Clarke' is about to open flowers, and they are already opening on Lonicera X purpusii. Foliar buds on a whole bunch of plants are swelling. For some reason I have a terrible feeling we might stay advanced like this for a few weeks, only to have a sharp freeze in mid-late March. Oh well. Maybe I'm being a chicken little LOL.