Scraggly spring

I already mentioned the forsythia didn't bloom this year. Lots of other plants had a hard time with the long hard winter or the last snowfall that broke the record. The dogwood tree isn't blooming, though it is starting to put out leaves. Most of the kerria bush died and those branches need to be cut out. One of the two redbud trees is putting out a feeble effort, though the other is doing OK (and my neighbor's redbud is glorious, but she is an active gardener). The crabapple didn't bloom, though it doesn't many years. The azalea did bloom, as you can see below. The scraggliness is not because of the winter. It has been scraggly for a while. When my yard guy next shows up I'll ask him to add some fertilizer.