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Joys of Spring

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bagitha Mon 09-Jan-12 16:52:36

Tramping up the hill
In the deep dusk
To shut the henhouse for the night,
I saw, even in the dim light,
Light buds on the apple tree
And, with the light of my torch,
A budding fresh greenness
At the ends of the flowering currant.
The bird cherry tree buds
Are swelling with new life
And the gorse looks sturdily leaved,
Ready to flower before too long.
If the bees have survived the winter in the chimney,
(the honey has stopped dripping),
They might come out for that.
smile

jeni Mon 12-Mar-12 14:38:39

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! smile

wotsamashedupjingl Mon 12-Mar-12 14:31:33

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. sunshine

jeni Sun 11-Mar-12 16:41:32

Lovelysunshine

Butternut Sun 11-Mar-12 16:28:57

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

kittylester Sun 11-Mar-12 16:11:36

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! sunshine

Jacey Sun 11-Mar-12 16:05:07

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

Annobel Sun 11-Mar-12 15:33:47

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.

jeni Sun 11-Mar-12 15:12:01

Mine was mowed on Monday.

Oxon70 Sun 11-Mar-12 14:51:30

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...

jeni Sat 10-Mar-12 21:56:31

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

Annobel Sat 10-Mar-12 21:52:24

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

jeni Sat 10-Mar-12 21:34:09

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

bagitha Sat 10-Mar-12 21:13:00

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

70 frogs is pretty good going, HP!

Hankipanki Sat 10-Mar-12 20:44:22

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.

glammanana Sat 10-Mar-12 17:47:32

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 !!!

jeni Sat 10-Mar-12 16:57:48

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

Annobel Sat 10-Mar-12 16:50:39

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

jeni Sat 10-Mar-12 16:18:48

Just checked, its8degrees!

jeni Sat 10-Mar-12 16:06:20

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!

kittylester Sat 10-Mar-12 15:41:06

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

jeni Sat 10-Mar-12 14:44:55

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?confused

MrsJamJam Fri 09-Mar-12 19:20:34

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!

Butternut Fri 09-Mar-12 18:50:55

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......

www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/eagle-cam-returns/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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.

Butternut Tue 06-Mar-12 16:47:50

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

jeni Tue 06-Mar-12 16:38:10

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!