Not in gardens or the countryside, but daffodils in all the supermarkets now, Spring can't be too far behind Got to love daffodils, you can't look at a vase full without smiling, or is that just me? My cyclamen and primroses have been flowering constantly in the garden and bring great joy, but daffs in the supermarket......
My Spring bulbs are poking their little shoots through the soil and snow and I've got one white hellebore in flower with a couple of others with buds on. No sign of snowdrops yet so I'm hoping that the squirrel hasn't nicked them.
I went out to look this afternoon - no snowdrops, primroses or anything except hellebores flowering here yet - but weirdly, and with no cloche, my rhubarb is coming up - really cheered me up to see inch high pink shoots!
I love to see the signs of spring each year. We have just one hellebore plant, it's a beautiful white one that our DD bought us from Botanic garden 2 or 3 years ago, ( to replace a group of about 5 that we had bought the previous year that didn't even try to grow at all,.) It is in full bloom.. I look forward to all the spring flowers, I try to make a note in my diary when the first of each variety appear. ( see what an exciting life I lead,)..!!
Lots of hazel catkins in the lane beside our houses. I hope it means lot of nuts in the autumn - we didn’t get any last year. I have crocuses and tete a tete daffs coming through in their pots.