Spring-ish

I do like this time of year. It’s just a few weeks to Spring. Winter still has frosts and grey misery to throw at you, but its time is limited.

The garden has switched from soggy grass to life. The snowdrops and aconites have mostly gone. But the daffs and hyacinths are in full bloom. Plus so many other plants have promising buds showing. From the apple trees (now pruned) to the my tree peony.

In no particular order here are some photos of our messy garden!

Blue hyacinth against grass.
Hyacinth
white and yellow daffodils in front of a polytunnel
Daffodils
Hyacinth
Daffodils and snowdrops

Spring is coming – flowers in the garden

Our garden was well planned by the previous owners. They bought the house in 1933 and spent their lives planning the garden. No lawn, but vegetable patches in the middle and flowers around the borders. We have left the garden much wilder. The vegetables patches were replaced by grass (although we reverted part of that to vegetables patches during the first lockdown). The borders are still full of flowers. All planned so that the last weeks of Winter and Spring are full of flowers, snowdrops, aconites, crocuses, daffodils, then tulips, crown imperials, irises and plenty more. Here’s the first batch:

(The first daffodils photo is from elsewhere in the village, but it’s a lovely photo!).

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