I returned from a few days in Sarasota (also experiencing wide variations in weather) and missed the late snow here. My magnolia and camellia are done for the season (I was not around to cover their tender buds with sheets!) and my cherry bloom is damaged, but as I gingerly raked some of the leaf debris from the small woods, the early spring ephemerals - especially native Virginia bluebells and celandine poppy - were apparent and sturdily growing upward. They don't look like much now but wait a few weeks. These tough plants belong in every garden - they bloom in early spring, then, like bulbs, the foliage fades away til next year so that you can overplant (carefully!) with summer and fall interest plants. I use a lot of ferns for those seasons because they are so deer-resistant.