Rosalind Creasy wrote a book in the 80s called Cooking from the Garden. I highly recommend it. I got it from the library. It does not appear to be in print now. She wrote in the chapter about Native American gardens that they traditionally planted their corn when "the dogwood blossoms changed from beige to white or the wild plums were in bloom". A plum tree in the neighborhood bloomed before our last snowfall, so I'm not depending on it, but I have read that a dogwood tree can be a pretty reliable gauge of soil temperature. Here is the current bloom stage of our backyard tree. It will be planting time soon!
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