Barry - we were lucky last week and did not get frosted, though people a mile away in any direction did...(two nights last week!)

My columbines have started blooming; I have some that are more or less natives - and then occasionally plug in a garden variety - until most of the seedlings are looking like natives again.

This year have some large red; some small red, some wine-ish; deep blue (almost black) blue, light blue, in two or three different bloom shapes and orientations. Love what you get when your flowers are promiscuous! I think I have a yellow one about to bloom. When it opens then I can look and see what if anything I can buy at the mursery to shake things up some more.

Yellow peony bloomed over the weekend.