Spring is coming!

My daft apricot blooms every February, gets frosted.
End result --
No apricots

One of the fuchsia in a big pot on the patio is happily blooming, and the sweet pea by the back door is still in green leaf if a bit windlown. (as am I!)

Hazel catkins have been out for weeks here in Suffolk, I thought it was odd. We passed a gorse bush in full flower on the heathland today. I still have loads of roses in flower - not unusual in Kent or Hants but most unusual where we live.

hazel catkins out in some spots up here in n wales

Horrible weather here this morning as I ran out to feed the birds but when I noticed the shoots and buds that have started to appear, I just wanted to

New leaves on fuchsia. Bulging buds on azaleas and rhododendrons, daffodil shoots an inch above, and snowdrops. Healthy-looking buds on apple tree and birches (also on cherry until it fell down, but we have younger ones).
It's like this every January. I love it. Such a statement of winter defiance . Most will stay semi-dormant for a while.

Cut daffs in the shops are the first sign of spring...

I think that spring is on its way because I saw Easter eggs for sale in Waitrose yesterday. On another shelf they were trying to flog Christmas left overs.

I have primroses out, they only stopped flowering a month or two ago! I picked up a blown-down twig of fluffy pussy willows yesterday. I shall put them in a vase with cut daffodils when I see some to buy.
Roll on Spring!

My snowdrop shoots are peeping through and there are groups of violets getting ready to flower, lots of bulb shoots in the flower tubs, too.

so does my hydrangea its full of flower buds!!!!