Anyone else got signs of Spring in their garden yet?

We are on acid, sandy soil next to a Heather Moor and I get best results from bulbs planted in the green. For the last few years I have been buying the native Daffodil, in the green, much smaller than cultivated varieties but a lovely primrose yellow that copes with the wind and flowers early. I have never been able to keep Aconites, but snowdrops naturalised overtime, as do Bluebells and grape hyacinths seem to thrive in the sandy soil. Crocus and Tulips like the well drained soil as well.

Jacobs lambs with their lambs. Sturdy little fellows.

Countrywide showing Saddlescombe and Devil Dyke my stomping ground.

I've got frog spawn, roses and hawthorn breaking into leaf, flowers out - primroses, violets, little daffodils, crocuses, the last of the snowdrops, hellebores, aubretia, aconites and tiny cyclamen.
It's full- on spring here with wind, showers, hail, sunshine, rainbows. I know London will be weeks ahead, with camellias out since January. It's been another very mild winter here in the south.

The Cornus Mas I mentioned on January 31st is still covered in its little yellow pom-poms - a wonderfully long-lasting display. The Rhododendron Praecox is in full flower, and there are masses of Hellebores - there are more every year as they seed themselves prolifically. My winter-flowering shrub honeysuckle has quite insignificant little white flowers - but a lot of them!

My cherry tree is in full flower lots of bumble bees on it this morning, crocus, primrose,hellebore and daffs about to open up. A few of my clematis have shoots too.

Can't believe how much further on Spring is for some of you! My clematis is showing some small signs of life and the camellia is budding up but looks like it will be weeks away from actually being in bloom! Tete a Tete narcissus are just, in the last day or so, starting to open, and some of the crocus are flowering, but not all. I put in some pale lemon and lilac primroses, to add a little colour to my tiny plot, but the torrential rain has battered and bruised them quite badly. I'm in NW England and we've had heavy rain and snow showers for weeks now, do you mind me asking whereabouts in the country you are, because your gardens seem much more advanced!

Tanith I can't believe your cherry Tree is in full flower and you've got bees too!

I am in West London but way out in the suburbs but yes I was surprised to see Bumble Bees this morning, we have only had a tiny bit of snow all Winter but today has been sunshine and heavy showers all day.

Any bees brave enough to venture out here would soon perish Tanith ! There are a few tiny new born lambs nearby but, it's so cold and wet that they're being kept inside. 16 days until the official "first day of Spring " and I'm really hoping we get some drier weather soon!

The first of our daffodils have just flowered

Whereabouts are you Varian, if you don't mind my asking?

No actual flowers yet, but loads of new buds showing on hydrangas etc. Peonies and Dicentra are showing loads of fresh growth (Must remember to cover Dicentra with something to protect from dog walking over it, I usually use an old freezer basket!).

On the nuisance side, loads and loads, literally hundreds, of sycamore seeds sprouting from the sycamore tree two gardens down. Not too many high winds this year so we got the bulk of the seeds. Not sure if I am going to be able to get them all up, the tree gets longer branches each year and I get less able to crawl around picking them out.

This is a new garden to me and it is wonderful to watch the hundreds of bulbs coming into bloom that we did not even know were there - they are all over the place.

I noticed yesterday that my bulbs have survived another winter and the dwarf irises and tulips are popping up. And there was a bumble bee on the window sill this morning.

I have lovely Iris Reticulatas, clumps of snowdrops, vincas, hellebores, cyclamen coum, early narcissi and pulmonarias, some violets and winter-flowering honeysuckle, all neatly following the viburnum bodnatense, hamamelis and mahonia shrubs - and the cornus mas.I've ordered lots more snowdrops in the green; also wild daffs and more cyclamen, to build up the clumps and drifts in areas of the garden which are still a bit bare. I love winter and early spring gardens - so full of promise and delight. Can never have enough of these plants! Any more recommendations?

Snowdrops galore, crocus, and one mini daffodill :-). saw a Blackbird gathering stuff to make a nest this morning so have left a bit of handy dog hair out for them. I have found old nests in the past beautifully lined with it .Talk about cozy!

I live right on the NE coast and often have winds and salty air to contend with but today has been like a summer day. Not a mention on Countryfile weather though, when as usual the NE is skipped. Today I have been working in the garden in my tee shirt as it was so warm in the sunshine. Front ablaze with hundreds of happy yellow flowers (mini daffodils), crocuses and grape hyacinths. Lots of new growth happening out back, huge buds on hydrangeas. Looking forward to sewing some seeds again soon. Birds tweeting away right now in the lovely tree we planted when we moved in.

We've got much the same as Rowantree. DH had to dig out an old apple tree which deceased last year so a lot of bulbs have got rather muddled in that area. I'm waiting to see how many fritillaries have made it. I love bulbs and have problems finding unoccupied spaces for annuals.

Yesterday I had to dispose of all the begonia corms I'd been overwintering for our local 'In Bloom' group. I'd turned them over and started watering last week and several were waking up..... but so were the vine weevils which must have been lurking in egg form overwinter.

The daffs at the front of the house are opening now, and some of the bulbs in the pots at the back. The hellebores are flowering nicely. There are snakeshead fritillaries poking through in the rockery but at the moment their numbers seem to be fewer than last year. I hope we get a good few because I do love them. My camellia is full of buds but is being very slow to flower this year. Last year when we were on holiday DD bought an azalea and when it came home it developed leaf gall. She was going to throw it out, but I took it home and repotted it and took off the galls as they appeared. This year it looks really healthy, and guess what! She wants it back! I've told her it's still in quarantine so she can't have it ?.

NfkDumpling I love bulbs and have the same problem. I'm one of those gardners who fills every single space. If there's a patch of soil something goes in it

Saves so much time weeding They either can't get a nose in or just get lost and don't show!

I had a good look around the garden yesterday, and I found some of my missing snowdrops☺. We also have crocuses, mini daffodils and the buds are beginning to burst on the plum tree in the pot outside my living room.

We have very fertile fenland soil so I also stuff the borders full to bursting to help keep the weeds at bay.

It's sunny today and I'm longing to finish clearing the borders of winter detritus but.....the flippin' car is booked in for its MOT later this morning.

I'm a bag of nerves. It's worse than having a teenager sitting an exam!

Daffs. are beginning to bloom. Helebores look lovely.
Buds on the trees and the grass looks like it's beginning to grow again.

Today...snowdrops still in bloom, also tete a tete narcissi all out,some of the croci too, and tulips up and almost in bud.Now, this is all wrong! Snowdrops should be well over by now( late arriving) narcissi are right for the time, but the tulips should be end of April according to the packaging of the bulbs that we bought.Also, primroses are out, but nothing like the magnificent show of them we had last year.