What happened to Spring?

I know it will officially be summer tomorrow but what happened to spring?  I admit while I enjoy gardening, an expert I am not.  I'm pretty good with flowers, annuals and perennials BUT evergreens are becoming my arch nemesis!
This will we second time the evergreens that I've planted have bit the dust.  I water - but not too much, but then again how do you know when enough is enough?


 Since I can't figure out what in the world I'm doing wrong I'm going to blame it on the fact that we seldom have springtime weather.

So here's a few pictures from my tea rooms garden, of course I'm leaving out anything that has an evergreen in it - because for me they aren't evergreen they are ever-brown!