What a lovely way to start the day.
MW
Signs of Spring
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MuddyWitch
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Signs of Spring
The golden forsythia blooms against the dark green holly tree beyond greeted me as I opened the blind this morning.
What a lovely way to start the day.
MW
What a lovely way to start the day.
MW
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mrsflibble
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Re: Signs of Spring
We have some daffs comin up on the green outside!
also my rhubarb is going like the clappers.
also my rhubarb is going like the clappers.
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
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Re: Signs of Spring
Its very, very cold in Lincolnshire today but the garden is starting to come to life again. We to can see the forsythia about to bloom, snowdrops, aconites, primroses, crocuses, wood anemones, dwarf daffs and our lovely collection of hellebores all look lovely.
The birds are more active, they can sense the warmer days to come. All the bird boxes have been taken by the numerous blue tits that come into the garden to feed. Our lovely pair of collar doves have taken up their favourite branch on the apple tree, unfortuntely their nest in the tree will need a bit of rebuilding this year as the bad weather took its toll.
Managed to clean out our small pond last weekend, patios all cleaned as is the greenhouse.
Fruit bushes have green buds on, rhubarb soon ready for first picking and noticed a few green buds on the plum tree. I just love this time of year, every day there seems to be something else that is bursting into growth.
Sue
The birds are more active, they can sense the warmer days to come. All the bird boxes have been taken by the numerous blue tits that come into the garden to feed. Our lovely pair of collar doves have taken up their favourite branch on the apple tree, unfortuntely their nest in the tree will need a bit of rebuilding this year as the bad weather took its toll.
Managed to clean out our small pond last weekend, patios all cleaned as is the greenhouse.
Fruit bushes have green buds on, rhubarb soon ready for first picking and noticed a few green buds on the plum tree. I just love this time of year, every day there seems to be something else that is bursting into growth.
Sue
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Re: Signs of Spring
A trip to Bristol last weekend showed up we're a couple of weeks behind those further south. Still we have the hellebores, crocus, and snowdrops flowering. Daffs and tulips are coming and the rhubarb is still alive sending up shoots so digging it up and spliting it hasn't killed it.
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mrsflibble
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Re: Signs of Spring
MY PSB IS FLOWERING!!!!!
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
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MuddyWitch
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Re: Signs of Spring
I really need sleep...I read that as PMT! 
MW
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Re: Signs of Spring
mrsflibble wrote:MY PSB IS FLOWERING!!!!!
Hoorah
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Re: Signs of Spring
Yippee - had the first rhyubarb crumble of the year last night with my forced rhubarb!
Meant to take a photo as I just love the psychadellic pink and radioactive acid yellow, but it was gone too fast for that.
Blooming lovely it was too!
Meant to take a photo as I just love the psychadellic pink and radioactive acid yellow, but it was gone too fast for that.
Blooming lovely it was too!
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Re: Signs of Spring
We've been eating winter veg, parsnips, leeks, etc and recently cauliflower, broccoli and PSB, but in our house we know spring is really coming when we pick this years fresh nettle tops and have nettles soup. This we did last night, with some celeriac and leeks - delicious.
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Re: Signs of Spring
I have rhubarb envybonniethomas06 wrote:Yippee - had the first rhyubarb crumble of the year last night with my forced rhubarb!
Meant to take a photo as I just love the psychadellic pink and radioactive acid yellow, but it was gone too fast for that.
Blooming lovely it was too!
Do you know what type it is? I would love to be picking rhubarb now but mine has only just pushed through the soil.
Zoe