Good to see loads of bees round the open crocus's/crocii. This is only the third day this season that they have been fully out (sunshine) and they are starting to go over [sad] still, nice to see them

Ouch! Where in Normandy are you? I love Normandy and Brittany

Here in Normandy our forecast is for heavy snow over the next couple of days and -9 at night. Just saying.

Yip, dementia praecox is also known as per senile dementia where senile is defined as being over 65[jhmm] honest!

Praecox as in precocious. We have been known to have snow in April, Jess. But this year we won't....Will we? I have seen the odd flake falling from a blue sky this afternoon. Bizarre.

Lots if plants are praecox galen - just means early doesn't it.
You're nearer the sea than me. And lower probably. Am going to see kids in 4 weeks - surely winter can't last another month?

Oh! I had one of those, but it died perhaps I should get another.
Can't wait for the summer though and my front patio where I sit in the sun.
I've bought loads of plants and when they arrive I'll have to get some containers. Don't like plastic but the large terracotta I want are so dear!
The terracotta looks best as my house is a red sandstone.

Galen here it is

I've heard of dementia praecox but not rhodidendrum.

My camellias are very tardy this year. However, there's a lovely splash of colour from my rhododendron praecox which has never been better.

My fuscias are just starting to show leaf and my white camellia will be out soon. I think spring is around the corner

Every cloud (an blooming freezing easterly wind) has a sliver lining - the snowdrops are lasting much longer
Hardly any blackthorn here yet - i don't remember having such a long cold winter - it started in Dec.

Amazing! There has been a lump of manchego cheese on the bird table for a month! Totally ignored!
Today in half an hour, a foreign blackbird started on it! I think he must be an immigrant from Spain, followed closely by the robin and the lbj.

No. No beers! (One empty wine bottle making it's slow way to the recycling bin, but that's it)

jingle, DH has just looked over my shoulder and thought your thread title read, Good to See Loads of BEERS Around the Open Crocuses.

The snowdrops are lasting amazingly well! Much longer than they usually do. I wonder why.

Our crocuses are only just poking through as well. I'm getting impatient. The snowdrops still look lovely though and the daffs are budding up.

I'd have loved to sit outside today, but didn't dare stray too far from the facilities!

Ground elder is making its wicked way through

Our crocuses are hardly through the grass yet. I think I can see some because I know where they should be. Oh well, something to keep looking forward to!

Weeds also seem to think it is time to get growing but the feel of the sun on my back makes it just about bearable!
PS Don't altogether get the thread title - could you be a little more specific?

That's more like it J ! Whatever you're on, I want some.

LOL what are you like jo8... (please dont answer)

I saw a red admiral and a brimstone butterfly today. the car thinks it is 17deg. Sitting here with the back door open.
Went for lunch with someone from GN - showed her a hidden garden she had not seen before - pulmonaria out and also some large iris up against an old wall. Lovely. Garden envy.

I had a lovely brown and orange butterfly on my winter-flowering pansies (still going strong) this morning.