Uh,...maybe your specific area but central Florida is awful. Look at the pollen reports for anywhere that's not directly on the beach. It's 10+ on a maximum of 12 scale for the index forecasters use
Not yet, but things just started blooming in the last couple of weeks. I'm a little pleasantly surprised by the large amount of cherry blossom trees around here, as a side note. It was one of the few things I thought I'd be missing about dc.