Yearly Archives: 2018
Spring foliage.
While taking a long look at the garden yesterday, it wasn’t the flowers that grabbed my attention, but the beautiful, delicate leaves that are all unfurling from their cases. There are so many different shades of green as well as … Continue reading
Woodland ephemerals.
Woodland ephemerals are the tiny little plants that decorate the woodland floor, one minute they are nowhere to be seen, the next minute they are up, flowering, setting seed and then over. Blink and you miss them, don’t go on … Continue reading
Spring has Sprung! GBBD April 2018.
The garden is bursting forth with the slightly higher temperatures and the sunshine we have had lately, each day brings new flowers for me to enjoy. It seems as though everything in the garden is trying to catch up with … Continue reading
At last !
Nearly a month late, but never mind, the snakeshead fritillaries, Fritillaria meleagris, are flowering in the woodland at last. Today was a beautifully sunny day with a cold wind, the woodland is quite sheltered so it was a pleasure to … Continue reading
St. Patrick has woken at last!
He’s two weeks late, but at last Narcissus St.Patrick has woken up and is spreading his lovely soft yellow flowers round the woodland and the woodland border.
Shhhh….I think Spring might have sprung!
I might be speaking too soon, but I hope not. The garden has an air about it that speaks to me of spring, leaf buds are starting to unfurl and more flowers are opening up each day. The birds are … Continue reading
More iced muffins anyone?
Talk about deja vous! This snow is easily as deep as the first lot, but this time it is sticking on all the branches and twigs whereas last time it was very dry and blew into drifts with the gales … Continue reading
March Medley. GBBD 2018.
Our cold spell put the brakes on our early bulbs, one minute they were flowering merrily with lots of buds to come, but they seem to have been put into the pending file until the weather warms up again. Narcissus … Continue reading
Skiing while waxing lyrical.
No, not that sort of skiing, not with my arthritis and muscle problems! Spending the Kids Inheritance sort of skiing. I have had an idea to make a new path in the woodland, the other side of the ancient trees … Continue reading
What a difference a day makes!
I am amazed, the past few days have been the depths of winter, today it is bright sunshine, the birds are singing once more, the temperature is up to 10 C and the flowers are fine, definitely spring time!