As a little foretaste of Spring we have been enjoying a few days of mild weather and the gardens are bursting with early colour. My other half is happily messing about with compost heaps and 'pottering' out there.
Sadly I'm a bit under the weather so I have to be satisfied with just looking for a while - but I'm loving our wild patch under the fruit trees where primroses, crocus, snowdrops and anenome and tiny daffodils are naturalising beautifully. Other bulbs are bursting through and the hellebores are making a fabulous show - and I can take out my camera. So this blog is just about the flowers....
These tiny delicate crocus have spread and grow all over our garden, and pop up in the lawn too.
When the hellebores seed, seedlings appear in the most unlikely places and in a variety of colours.
The cyclamen I photographed a month or so ago have suddenly become dozens!! Hard to believe that there was just one in this pan about five years ago. They've migrated to the next one, and into a narrow border on the other side of the path and into a couple of pots that stood nearby just for two or three weeks. I love the fact that when plants are happy they spread themselves around.
Inside the orchids are starting to flower like mad.
There are more - but I'll show you next time.
Thank you for looking
Robin