What a great progress report! I hope the warm weather continues for you.
Many of my roses are in bud, and the drought is definitely over in my part of the state. We got more than 8 inches of rain in just the first 12 days of March, so I think many of these buds were ruined and won't open up into pretty blooms. After 3 years of drought, however, I'll take rain over pretty blooms!