Yeah, I hate those cold rainy Springs where it stays chilly into April and May.  There have been years where it's rained
so often that I finally had to start pruning and trimming the forsythias, lilacs and other stuff in the rain.  Then there are
other years when it's been so arid and dry that we've lost huge old rhododendrons and the forsythias were even actually
beginning to wilt.  No matter what we did we couldn't keep everything watered enough.