As Winter Finally Closes Out The Garden Shows Even More Colour!

Finally winter is coming to a close. To be fair, after a brutally cold and snowy December it has not been all that bad, although there were a couple of damned cold weeks in January! No return of the snow, knock on wood! A couple of years ago it snowed at Easter! Fingers crossed no repeat of that! It hasn't seemed to be an eternal depressing season this year around ;-)

I noted midweek that the sunset in West London is now past 17:30 which means that there is enough working light until at least 6pm. If the weather doesn't freeze the hands too badly that leaves about an hour every day to get out into the garden ;-). Not that I have had an iota of time to do this at the moment. Too much DIY trying to finish off the nursery! That's not a plant nursery but rather a kids bedroom ;-). I figure I have 2 1/2 more weekends work there but if I spend a few evenings as well then in a couple of weeks I should have a little more gardening time. I need it! Despite all the pictures of flowers there are also plenty of weeds taking over the lawn! In fact I need to sort these out this week. Must take a break from the nursery to sort that out!

In the meantime I snuck out for 10 minutes today to grab a few more photos of the new colour in the garden. It is so nice after the bleak winter to see the garden really start to brim with colour again. Although this of course means that the lawn mower and hedge trimmer will soon have to make an appearance!

The picture above is of some mini daffodils. Below, even the Rosemary is showing a little colour after coming into flower

The Crocuses also putting on a fine show

If if yellow is your thing, here is a rather large splash of it!

Finally another few spots of purple.

Love that we are so close to Spring! Hoping that if I finish the DIY, that I might just be able to enjoy it in the garden! ;-)

Have fun

m

More Evidence Of The Garden Springing Back To Life

Yesterday was really the first day that I have been able to get into the Garden this year to clear out a bit of the chaff that has accumulated over the Winter. I am supposed to be sorting out the study and turning it into a nursery but after returning from the hardware store the Sun was simply too beautiful to pass up! Looking at the weather forecast for Sunday suggested rain all day so I simply had to down DIY tools to pick up the gardening ones for a while!

I should add I am glad that I did this when the sun was there, as within 2 hours there was more rain and even hail! Yesterday really did feel like a four seasons in one day yesterday. Grey and overcast, and due to the moisture in the air really cold as I wandered around London for 2 hours while waiting for my car to be serviced. This followed by a far warmer feeling afternoon due to the presence of the glorious sun. Followed by more rain and some hail as I then had to switch back into DIY mode to close out the day!

The title photo of this blog is of the Hortensia which I thought had perished during the winter. It simply looked so horrible and rotten that I thought I would shortly be digging it up! It showed it is made of far sterner stuff though and is coming on Strongly now!

Below are a bunch of Daffodils doing their best impression of B Of A Bang, a sculpture in Manchester

A couple more that I am yet to identify coming on strong and even flowering! Can't spend more time here now! Many chores to do! Will attempt to identify these correctly later on, when time permits. Been a crazy day already and only going to get more crazy!

Have fun

m