The suns out and so are the gardeners.
"We are in heaven with the weather," said Carol Nunham who likes gardening.
Jane Joseph says she's at the garden center to "get an idea of what I can start indoors, so that I'll be ready when it's really, really warm."
She went to Van Atta's to get her pots ready for her flowers.
"I love the colors of the flowers," said Joseph. "Annuals have so many different colors and perennials, and it's always very festive looking to have lots of flowers growing."
Something garden experts say is a good idea for this weekend.
"You've gotta beware," said Lisa Bashline with Van Atta's Greenhouse and Flower Shop. "It is just mid-April, and it can turn cold again. So you don't wanna get over eager, especially with putting out annual flowers."
Now's the time to get the lawn ready, which means pulling weeds and fertilizing. But there are a few exceptions.
"You can put potatoes in the ground now," suggested Bashline. "You can plant your pea seeds and spinach, lettuces. So it's good to get started with some of that."
Which is why garden centers are also getting ready for the crowds to come this weekend.
"The warmer it is, the busier we are," said Jim Hall with Horrocks. "It's a long cold winter around Michigan, and people get cabin fever... Whenever the sun comes out to where you can go outside without freezing your tail off, they're ready to go."
So as long as mother nature cooperates, they're open for business.
"With the sunny weather, business just picked up immediately," said Bashline. "That's all it really takes this time of year is for a little bit of sunshine."
"When you have a day like this, you're really anxious to get outside and start doing things outside," said Joseph.
Like getting that garden ready for spring.
