Which coast are you on?

Rhody, not sure if I'm supposed to take that as sarcasm? The Mid-Atlantic is on the East Coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_states
(OT historical note, it's interesting that as far back as 1883 there was a map defining "middle Atlantic" in the contemporary way that we do, including Virginia. I sometimes meet people who insist the term only applies to states north of the Mason Dixon line. Although I would not dispute MD & VA being "southern" states...along the strict nothern/southern dichotomy, they have and always have had a cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the south. As for Maryland, could any other southern state have been forced to join the Union? The reasons were greater than the physical proximity to a federal city. And look at what happened to Virginia: home of the capital of the confederacy, yet split into two by the War!)

Anyhow, I think it does have to do with the cloudiness of this spring time. Most of my plants are in morning sun, but there hasn't been any sun in the mornings! The plants that are blooming "out of order" are ones that get late afternoon sun, when the sun has been out.

Sorry, I missed the big letters. I apologize for asking the obvious.

I am in SE PA and we have seen same thing. Different plants have different triggers such as length of day and periods of warm temperatures, as well of anti-triggers such as periods of drought and cloudy weather.