For example, the rosemary pictured here just laughs off a bit of snow and keeps right on growing. Sometimes it'll even bloom soon after as if to say, "Are we ready for spring?"
One of my favorite plants growing up, living on the Texas coast, was the azalea bush. Every spring they would bloom around the city and you knew it was going to be so hot in a few weeks that you would soon rather sit in front of your tv until Fall than go out and do anything. But for those few weeks, outside was the place to be. A close second was of course the honeysuckle but that's a different post.
The point of this though is that even up here in the Dallas area there are varieties of azalea that will grow just fine up here and give that same sense of dread that summer is coming. But with the addition of the azalea, those few weeks of spring will be so worth it. It's unfortunate that not a lot of places grow azaleas as landscaping shrubs though. Part of that is probably due to the heat we experience here. Keeping them shaded and watered enough during the hottest part of summer is probably more trouble than it's worth. On the coast it really doesn't get as hot for as long and when it does it at least has moisture along with it.
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