First come the snowdrops and crocuses and then the yellow flowers. Daffodils and Forsythia brave the end of winter while the Magnolia buds swell with anticipation. These are a few haiku attempts around this theme:

Huddled together
the bitter winter wind
Clumping daffodils

End of winter
A pale green and yellow
Beneath bare trees

After snowdrops
So comes the daffodils
The changing lights

Winter’s journey
Snowdrops nod lazily
In a chill breeze

Biding time
The magnolia buds arrested
In a bitter snap

A gliding swan
Watching the magnolia buds
Beneath the surface

Waiting on the cusp
Of winter and spring
The point of a daffodil

Winter’s spring
Rising in no man’s land
The young daffodil 

A winter’s bed
The daffodil emerges from the mud
Wrapt in pale green

Cold grey sky
Out of a long brown winter
The yellow