As far as I’m concerned, spring is now totally and completely entrenched here. Ichi Ki Kei Jiro, my Japanese persimmon, has started opening her leaf buds. That’s always the last fruit tree to wake up for me.
April 9, St. Paul, MN, area, zone 4a. The buds on my pears and apples are showing a bit of green on the tips. Plums and cherries barely changed from last week’s totally dormant. Just a hint of green showing on a few of those. Haskaps have about 1/4 inch purple leaves. Buds on kiwis swelling, but showing no green yet. Forsythias showing yellow flower buds. Tulips sprouting in sunny areas. No sign of rhubarb or asparagus yet. Buds swelling on grapes, but nothing showing on tips yet. So things are starting to stir a bit here in the North finally. Slow awakening is best to avoid those brutal late frosts that have taken the plum and cherry blossoms the past couple years.
In Chicago area zone 5, my trees are waking up. Here is the cherry:
plum:
Peach:
and fig in container:
Wow, more bud growth than here in zone 6. So much for zone ratings! My sweet cherry has no bud swell at all. Only my pluot tree, raspberries, and blackberries have bud swell. Peaches no signs either. Well soon anyway!!
Purling NY all trees still sleepy. Maybe some bud swell.
. But good news is that no apparent freeze damage.
Mike
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April 9th and very little bud swell here in my Long Island, NY neighborhood… Temperatures rarely get to 0 in the winter but spring can very very cool. Temperatures still in the 40s and 50s. Next week we should get low 60s so that will help.
mine are coming along nicely. way ahead of where I expected but our spring has been very warm. Even did a bit of pruning already. Mostly just center growth. Did lose a couple branches to my 2 year old, LOL
grapes are waking up too
mike
My first tree to bloom this season, Ozark Premier plum. Started Sunday.
Methley looks like it is a day or so to bloom. Both are starting their 3rd season in my yard. A few other Japanese plums are a little behind those. Peaches are all showing pink at the buds. My Stark Delicious pear is about to bloom also.
I’m still waiting, hoping their is some that have good fruit buds. Buds are just starting to grow. When i checked they looked dead, but you never know, some may make it.
Overall pic of the orchard/garden. Hard to tell but there are 3 rows of trees (about 30).
Row Shot! 
Wonderful Eva’s Pride. This is my favorite early peach. Awesome tree for us that are lacking in the chill department. Sets tons of fruit with less than 100 chill hours and tastes great to boot.
Below is one of her fruits. Nom nom nom! haha. I cannot wait to eat some fruit!
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Here is my Arctic Star Nectarine and my Stella Cherry. Nectarine is full of fruit while the cherry is just flowering. This is Northern California in the Bay Area.
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Can’t wait for our Artic Star to look like yours! I need to thin some of the growth on it already, too much center growth.
I think the northeast must be behind everywhere else this year. Here is a Satsuma plum, which looks to be the furthest along of my trees (aside from new arrivals from 2 CA nurseries).
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I’m at about the same Bob. Tree buds are swelling. Raspberries are the most adanced, a couple of the currant cuttings you sent too. I think a few are dead, and a few are alive, all budded very early, but it looks like a few didn’t develop roots. Still cool to have three new plants! Thanks!
Apricots are blooming here… Japanese plums should be next.
My honey berry and nanking cherry is blooming.
letsski - is that normal for your cherry to be blooming so late in comparison to the nectarine?
Next week shows a nice blast of cold air into the midwest/lakes…i hope some of my stuff holds off for another week!
Yes - my Nectarine is the earliest of all my fruit. At our location, it goes Nectarine, Almond, Granny Smith Apple, Peach then Cherry. Cherries are ripe in mid June with Nectarines and Peaches late June and early July.
Nectarine bloom over a very long period in warm winter climates. The very low chill bloomed here this yr in late January. The high chill types are just done blooming. So that’s a two month spread this yr.