First crocus opening
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Is that a toad?
Do you get polinators on your balcony?
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We’ll have cypripedium montanum in a couple of months -common name “lady slippers”. Very neat plants. Foliage is similar to yours.
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Hi! This one is cypripedium macranthus, but there are more species starting to flower too… i don’t have cyp montanum… 
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White or Russian or Morus alba is bleeding. I’m looking for “vacated” rootstocks anywhere they can be found on my property:
IL 5b
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Silver maples popping buds all over. Time to dormant spray while stuff is still dormant
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So sorry.
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Lo and behold, my apricots are at shuck split. Peaches not far behind. There have been a lot of bees!
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Sandhill cranes showed up today.
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We’ve been looking but haven’t seen any yet.
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To be honest, I haven’t seen them either. I did hear them trumpeting in the marsh about a half mile away though 
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They do make a racket!
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Temps up to 70 today, earliest buds are thinking about popping. Time to spray. But … no dormant oil! Dig thru shelf - ah! Neem! “Can be used as dormant oil.” OK …
At least I had enough copper for the nects.
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I saw them overhead last week.
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I got pears separating bud scales. I’m like 80 miles south of Chicago but on the opposite side of the state near the Mississippi River.
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Pears are always late here. This year, it’s looking like apples will be early
Magnus pear was moving. I chopped it off though as mine had black rot. I haven’t looked everything over but I’ve looked at quite a bit. Not many pears have I looked at. There’s all kinds of non-natives in my Arboretum ready to learn a big lesson for a few months ahead, Lois.