WOW, first time ever all my roses are green to the tips!
I've never witnessed this the whole time I've seriously been growing roses.
Makes me wonder what this summer will bring.
The winter before last we had a very long, very cold winter and the roses were loaded with blossoms.
Whats going on with you other Zone 5'ers?

I'm pruning this Sunday. I have had very minimal losses this winter.. less than 10 roses total I think. I think that it's a combination of both a mild mild winter for the most part and the fact that I *may* have figured out on the planting part (burying them up to their eyeballs), plus mulching the crap out of them. The roses that I *did* lose were either teensy little bitty things from RU / Burling or were super weak roses that just didn't make it due to my ineptitude. Surprisingly, I lost more lilacs than roses this year. Probably because I baby the roses & ignore the lilacs. LOL.

Cane dieback is unusually low this year. Many roses are leafed out which has me worried since I am sure we'll get a cold spell before the end of May. It's supposed to get down to 28 this Monday which means 23 at my house.

After a week long heat wave with records highs we've been having some very cold weather
but so far no hard frosts. Today we had freezing rain that coated everything outside.
I'm not too worried about the roses as they usually do ok even
if the lose some of their leaves to a hard frost but I've been covering my peonies up.

Mine are all leafed out, too. It's so strange to see them so when it's not even April yet. I keep wondering why I haven't seen the apples bloom - then I remember.

Chelle - Yea, all of the crabapples & cleveland pears are really starting to bloom out. I don't think my forsythia are alive because 1 block away their forsythias are blooming like mad & mine are just sitting there like lumps on a log. My lilacs are gonna be spectacular!! And I hope I get more than 2 blooms on my two apple trees this year!

My Forthysia and Weeping Cherry are already done blooming by a week now.
I have buds on my Lilacs!
It's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
Maybe global warming has finally arrived in Michigan!
All I have to say about that is YEAH!