The Bradford pear, redbuds, and all the fruit trees have bloomed, and are leafing out.
Our average last freeze is April 1st. My wife has the guests bathroom shower full of plants she started from seeds. The kitchen dining room is full of plants she started from cuttings of last year's crop. The kitchen bar seating area is covered in plants. In the next week or so, she will be out there planting like mad.
She will "let" me add on 10 feet more to one flower bed very soon. More planing area, less grass to mow, to just one of the multiple flower beds that are taking over the yard.
Soon it will look like this again.
I used to mow the grass on all of those areas that are covered in flowering plants now. Much less the Koi pond area covered in plants, and the multiple other areas on the other side of the house.