Spring is coming!

Yep! the bulbs that I forgot to plant are sprouting beautifully in my porch in their plastic bags. Snowdrops, daffs, tulips and crocus.

It is strange how unplanted bulbs seem keener than planted ones to get going.

Daffodils are now coming out in flower as well as primroses but so far no snowdrops or crocuses. East Sussex is waking up.

Snowdrops in garden (a few) will have to throw the abandoned bulbs in a tub and hope for the best

Flower In Cheshire mine are just showing the white buds poking out of the green.

Same old!

Birds calling for mates and nesting in our garden in Essex.
Snowdrops out and a couple of neighbours daffs are in flower.
A rose still in flower!

No snowdrops yet but still got Campanula flowers and some type of coloured daisy (like a Gerbera?)

Hardly Spring but...... geraniums still in flower, one antirrhinum still in flower from last years Summer bedding !Snowdrops finally growing, bamboo canes [2] shooting up. Bizarre.

The yellow pompoms on the Cornus Mas are showing this morning as are the pink buds on the Rhododendron Praecox. My snowdrops have spread nicely since last year. One of my Camellias is covered in fat buds, but the other one - with variegated foliage - shows no sign of flowering although otherwise it looks perfectly healthy.

Snowdrops and crocuses in flower daffs won't be far behind.

"..... won't be far behind" - reminds me of
"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" ? Shakespeare?
Here in SW France we're not much more advanced than in the UK.
Last week - wild daffodils in bud.
And our shrub cognassier de Japon is about to burst into flower.
Yesterday I saw hundreds of lapwings, which I think fly down from the north hoping for milder weather. They're a beautiful sight, swarming up and down in moving skeins.

Song thrush singing this morning. First time i've heard it this year.

Haven't seen any kind of thrush here for years. Blackbirds by the bushel.

Blackbirds are a kind of thrush. [ducks]

No! They're not ducks! They have webbed feet like you in the boogeyman brae!

I typed boggy!

And a yellow rumped warbler has been seen in High Shincliffe. Beat that gransnetters

A What?

Wouldn't have any of them round here! This is a decent town. No room for hussies.
Yellow rumpled indeed!
Disgusted
Of N Somerset

Get ready for a big Aaaahhhhhhh! folks!
I've just been to my local farm shop for some meat. As I was coming out of their drive, I saw in the field a lot of snowy white, gambolling lambs!
I'm now going into my garden to see if the mint has survived?

Also, on the way back, in the middle of the town, I had to stop the car while a gloriously coloured cock pheasant took his own sweet time to strut a cross the road

We were woken up early by a thrush singing loudly outside the bedroom window this morning. So lovely to lie there and listen and know there's no need to get up.

Large bumble bee buzzing around the (closed) patio doors.

Spring flowers are busting out all over here on Sir Mon, including celandines. Lambs are two a penny. DH started wearing shorts yesterday (is the university department ready for the sight of his very sturdy legs I wonder...) and he came out walking in them today. (I am still wearing 2 layers on my legs though)
But we have yet another huge gale hammering up the Irish sea tonight.