It was pretty bad here - I have a dodgy stand of dead alder about 60 ft high in my orchard and a couple of the trees snapped off halfway down but luckily managed not to land on any other tree. So a bit more firewood for us!
Unfortunately quite a few healthy branches snapped off my weeping willow which is a shame.
My pond burst its banks for the 2nd time this year (never done that before in the time we've lived here) but soon receeded.
So, could have been worse.
As for plants/trees/bulbs being advanced, we've had blossom since mid February and round here it is beautiful with all the blossom on the mimosas, peaches, that ornamental prunus with the purple leaves and pink flowers, forsythia, japonica - the hedgerows are full of white blossom which look like my mirabelle plum which flowers really early, not to mention all the daffies. I think my tulips will be flowering before the end of the month!
In all we've really only had a couple of months of winter, in terms of plant dormancy!
