Tulips

These have been just glorious for a couple of weeks, although they're going over now. I do hope I can keep them for next year, although I don't have a great deal of success with tulips from year to year. I wanted to take a picture of them as part of the larger colour scheme (such as it is!) in the garden - they go very well - but I can't seem to get a photo with the true colour of the surroundings It comes out so bland, while in real life it's all very vibrant. The irises are just breaking into colour in the back garden, and the gladioli in the front garden - I put them together in a vase indoors and they are spectacular

Easter Holidays #5 - back home

Back home, spring has sprung ...


And we have lots of visitors helping themselves to whatever they need for their nests ...

April in the Garden

Speaking of garden - I love this time of year! The clematis montana has been in flower for a couple of weeks, and now the cherry blossom has joined in the cascade, too



We have tomato and cucumber seedlings in the greenhouse, and broccoli and lettuce seedlings hardening off before planting. The peas are showing, the carrots in the raised bed have germinated for once, and rocket and beetroot, too. The potatoes in the main bed are sprouting now, and we've planted six tubs of seed potatoes we were given at Hughenden (NT) walled garden I must get some more lettuce on the go, and am just biding my time before getting going with squash, chard, sunflowers and beans. Oh yes, the broad beans are well on their way, too ...

But there's plenty of weeding to be done (DH's job) - mostly in the flower beds, which are a fair way down the priority list but DH likes the distraction when he's busy - that's Friday's day off sorted then