There have been lots of lovely signs of Spring to spot this week. We have a pair of long-tailed tits nesting somewhere in the garden and they are regularly visiting the fat balls just outside the conservatory window. I haven't been able to get a decent photo of them yet as they flitter away so quickly. We've never had them nest here before and it feels like quite an honour. We also have a pair of dunnocks and a pair of robins. Today I heard the blackbird singing as I moved around the garden on a bit of a tidying spree. In the herb bed both rosemary and thyme seem to have been defeated by winter so have had to be taken out. Sage, parsley and chives seem to have survived as have the lavender and catmint. The sun felt warm on my back and clothes were flapping and drying slowly in the breeze. The pond seems unusually still with no frogs or frog spawn this year, something else affected by the strange weather of the last couple of months.
On our Tuesday walk we spotted....
Wood Anemone
I love to see this woodland spring plant with its pretty star like flowers as it spreads like a carpet across the woodland floor. A member of the buttercup family it is also known as windflower, thimbleweed and smell fox.
We also saw primroses in great profusion. Such a delicate, beautiful flower.
In the garden the rhubarb is looking good and strong, we'll soon be able to eat the first sweet stems.
As I took photographs of the rhubarb a butterfly landed daintily on its leaves. It was a Comma.
Little pink Bellis flowers lurking by the pond.
Tulips in a pot, I think these are the purple, feathery ones.
Peony shoots looking strong and healthy after we thought we'd lost the plant last year.
Wild Garlic or Ramsons at the top of the garden under the trees, another favourite to see both in the garden and on woodland walks.
Lungwort or Pulmonaria with its pretty flowers and spotty leaves.
A stray flower we think it is a bluebell but definitely not a native one. We have a clump of those and they are no where near flowering yet. I don't know where it has come from, it wasn't there last year or if it was it didn't flower.
Edit One - Ellie has pointed out in a comment that this flower is probably a hyacinth and I think perhaps she could be right, looking again at the shape of the flower it does look like a bit like a hyacinth. Thank you Ellie.
Edit Two - I've been out in the garden this afternoon and the flower has opened so this may help with the identification. I've been 'googling' and it looks a bit like a wild hyacinth also known as a common bluebell native to the Western Isles - details here
Edit One - Ellie has pointed out in a comment that this flower is probably a hyacinth and I think perhaps she could be right, looking again at the shape of the flower it does look like a bit like a hyacinth. Thank you Ellie.
How wonderful it should end up in our garden.
Marsh Marigolds in the pond. I do miss those absent croaking frogs.
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