Joys of Spring

Great oaks from little acorns grow. I can confirm that. Dd planted an acorn to try and grow a bonsai oak when she was young. It got left out in the garden while we went on holiday.
Said oak is now about14ft high? The jays love it. Bonsai it ain't!

I have just found a single little wild violet growing in my lawn grass. Completely unplanted by me. I think I am getting my own little bit of countryside.

Lovely

Just filled a jug of flowering witch hazel, picked on my walk.

Snap Annobel! When we moved here we purposefully bought a house with a small garden, having lived in a house with enough grass for all the usual children's paraphernalia including football goals! We then had it landscaped with two patios joined by a series of deep, wide steps between easily looked after beds. We now have time to enjoy the garden without the tyranny of mowing and, I have discovered, I enjoy gardening!

Wonderful bank of primroses out ...basking in the sunshine!

I had my garden landscaped without grass! Terraced with three patios and beds in between. Looks good as long as you don't inspect the weeds.

Mine was mowed on Monday.

Spring, spring, spring! My garden is waking up too.
My sister just phoned and they have been eating outside for two days.
Thinks though......going to have to mow the lawn sometime soon...

I know! I got an A level in it! But I have zNOT seen one!! I know about parthenogenesis, but that requires one entity!

If there's lots of frogspawn there must have been more than a single frog, jeni. That's biology.

I haven't seen a single frog! But lots of spawn

Lucky people with sunshine! Send some of it up north, would you?

70 frogs is pretty good going, HP!

I have frogspawn at last! Masses of it. My pond is a mass of slimey, cavorting, croaking frogs. I counted about 70 where do they all come from? Why do they all sit amongst the frogspawn, are they protecting it? They did'nt manage to protect it at dusk when 3 blackbirds stood on the edge of the pond having a feast.

Beautiful sunny peaceful day her in Cheshire, sat by the pond reading while Mr HP did some gardening.

It has been beautiful here to-day on The Wirral the sun is only just going down behind some clouds but it is still quite warm,*mr glamma* has put a vast amount of bizzie lizzies in this pm and the pots look good again after the winter,we where lucky to get a really good deal with them at Aldi 20 plants for £2.69 and every one is good,so the whole of the front pots done for under £10.00 brillant !!!

I've already said ' I've nicked borrowed the tropical dome from the Eden project. ' so please be careful when landing!

'Tis 11 degrees here. Couldn't we transport Stonehenge to balmy (barmy?) Cheshire?

Just checked, its8degrees!

No it isnt! I've just ventured ( very carefully) down the steps into my garden! It's lovely out. I now have about 9 clumps of frogspawn!

Because jeni it's still freezing quite cold out there! You'll all perish at Stonehenge Glad I've got an excuse to stay here!

My grape hyacinths are coming out. My rosemary is starting to flower. I've seen my first bumble bees. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, my Gardner said he saw a wren yesterday. There is another clump of frogspawn.
Why am I sitting indoors?

Everything in my garden has suddenly woken up and is growing noticably every day. jingl I love my celandines too, such a lovely sunny colour. A weed is only a weed if its in the wrong place - like a lot of my buttercups.

And this morning our four new hens laid FIVE eggs, so one of them must be feeling exhausted!

I'm being a complete nerd, but have the following on-stream for those who have nothing better to do. Can't wait for the babies......

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It is about 6/7 hours behind gmt.

(How do you do the blue link so there's not so much link info.?) The techies amongst you will know, I'm sure.

whatsup - Your celandines are just doing their thing wherever - good to leave them be.

I only noticed at 10am that the lawn was white and the pond frozen. Been a lovely day here as well. Now starting to cloud over.
Work tomorrow!