Is it my imagination, or are the plants you would expect to be well up
(and maybe flowering now) such as daffodils and snowdrops several weeks
late, while deciduous shrubs, etc such as Hydrangea, Magnolia, Acer,
Clematis are many weeks early?

Not only deciduous shrubs, come to think of it. Daphne odora
aureomarginata has flower buds about to break, and I don't remember it
flowering until March previously.

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Jeff