When Michelle Chapman at Veg Plotting said she wanted to start a new on-line project asking us to show what our gardens are like the weekend of 4/5 March, straightaway I put my hand up and said “Yes please!”. Then I fell at the first hurdle and failed to post on my blog during the weekend. I hope I am forgiven for being a day late.
Nothing has changed since Sunday, these photos were taken first thing Monday morning. I can’t wait to take the covers off the garden tables and sit in the warm sunshine, but sadly not yet. It has been so wet, the lawn is like a quagmire as I squelched my way to the bottom of my small garden to take a photo from an angle I don’t usually use. I stood at the back of the end flowerbed, and didn’t notice the green stick in the viewer! The sticks and chicken wire are meant to be a deterrent from foxes, cats and squirrels but don’t work. I am seriously contemplating buying a sonic scarer, but have bought cat repellant spray to see if that works.
The tulips are slowly making an appearance and the daffodils are beginning to produce a bit of color in the garden. There is a Ribes to the right of the photo which is covered in tiny little pink buds and the forsythia at the bottom of the garden also has yellow buds on it.
This little bed has always had raspberries, but this year, I have filled it full of spring bulbs. The iris reticula were a little late and only 6 flowered and they are nearly over. When I see photos of my garden, it brings home how much tidying up and work is necessary. This is my ‘untidy’ corner.
These pots are packed with tulip and daffodil bulbs and are a joy to see out of the kitchen window. If I look carefully into the leaves there are a few tulips ready to shoot up some flower stems in a couple of weeks.
This is the side patio from the other end. I have sweet peas and dahlias cooking nicely in the little greenhouse. The large pot is wedged in front of the greenhouse with a few bricks inside, to prevent it from blowing over in the wind.
A short post but this is my garden right now.
