The year in the garden is now well under way, as Mother Earth awakens in a very visible way…not that she ever slept!
Coltsfoot is one of the first herbs to come into flower, for it flowers before it leafs and a very welcome sight this is!
Bronze fennel, that most vigorous of herbs and also a brilliant addition to the flower garden, starts to produce tasty leaves that can be added to early Spring salads.
Rocket has over-wintered well in the tunnel and forms the base ingredient.
Daffodils are now up and beginning to flower.
Daffodils on the hill above the cottage, around an old abandoned dwelling are in full bloom!
Reminders of Winter come and go, but not for long, sometimes just an hour or two of a light dusting of snow.
Never enough to hold back the advance of the seasons!
But beware the wind chill factor that comes with early Spring and wrap up warm when venturing out to work in the garden!
When the sun does shine, it is truly glorious and plants like Rhubarb spring into exuberant life!
A very hungry plant, Rhubarb eats up a generous dressing of well-rotted manure.
Euphorbia comes into life in the flower garden…here it shares a half barrel with a Fig Tree and both like each other’s company!
In fact, the Fig has fruited well year on year since getting a new bed fellow!
An old but treasured book is always at hand to delve into for advice on seasonal food, gardening and outdoors work!
I wonder if this little gem is still in print?
Beautiful catkins on the Hazel trees…flowers in fact!
The pond is filling with frogspawn and clumps of frogs celebrating the turn in the year as only frogs can!
Out in the hen-house the girls are in touch with the growing of the light as they come back into lay!
Mr and Mrs Fox are hungry and on the prowl! I often lay out food at night for the foxes, for the way I see it is simply this: we have interfered with the food chain by removing the animals that would have predated upon foxes.
This is my way of attempting to live in harmony as best I can…and ensuring that the girls in the henhouse are well protected!
Hiya, I totally agree with what you say about the animals and helping them along. Especially the foxes. May I ask what you leave out for them? We have a few here and sadly, they are too thin.
I cook up pasta for them and leave out the remains of any food. pasta with butter is a favourite…leave in a dry place in case it rains.
My garden is a quagmire, I have never seen so much mud, and the rain barely stops. My poor hens have taken to staying in their nest boxes, and I can’t say I blame them!
Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News and commented:
Good for the garden “clock!”
Thank you for the beautiful spring photos…and those frogs are sooo cute… Thank goodness spring is here…
What lovely pictures of the garden springing into bloom. Also, it’s so great to see the frogs back in action. Thanks for the post.
Spring appears to be bursting out all over, as the songs goes!