This week at Lost in Translation Paula’s theme is ‘vernal’ and she is calling for our spring compositions. So here are a few scenes from my Wenlock garden. Things have been a bit slow this year because we’ve had no rain for weeks and weeks. But today we did – and the garden has come alive with aquilegias and alliums. And I had no time to take photographs because I had a hundred other things to do. Hey ho. So the photos here were mostly taken back in March/early April: ornamental cherry, crab apple, and damson – the flowers of fruit to come.
Tish Farrell 
Hi Tish, Everything is so beautiful and full of bloom this time of the year, there is something exciting to see around every corner and coming up out of the ground everywhere. You can just walk around for hours and then come back the opposite way, and still see new things! It is just an invigorating , and refreshing time of the year!
Are these trees in your allotment garden, or around your house garden? Where ever they are they are beautiful. 🙂 Have a great weekend Tish!
Hi Mitch. I absolutely agree with you about the invigorating qualities of spring. And there being so much to look at. The pix are from round my house garden’s edge. A happy weekend to you too 🙂
So beautiful, Tish. Thank you.
Lovely. I saw some beautiful buds during my park walk this morning and, for a change, with sunshine rather than rain drops on them. 🙂 Happy weekend.
janet
Everything here is revving up for a big flowering. So exciting! Have a lovely weekend, Janet.
I’d love to visit your garden. Lovely blossoms Tish!
It would be nice to have you visit 🙂
Well, if I am ever up there again I shall let you know 🙂
🙂 Please do!
Nice to see other people’s flowers blooming. Lack of sunshine is slowing things around here. It’s more like March than May!
We’ve not had much sunshine either, and it’s been very cool until the last few days – winds that cut through you. But maybe spring is really here now.
This is such a time of rebirth and I do love it.
Rebirth – exactly Lulu 🙂
All three are beautiful photos. Spring makes me smile 🙂
Alison
Me too 🙂
stunning . . . . lovely to catch up on an English spring as we have been away for most of it.
Thanks, Becky
“rebirthing” is the right word for all this…
Wonderful nature in your shots!
Thank you, Anna.
Looks wonderful – still hardly any rain up here but at least it means the grass doesn’t grow 🙂
It’s growing now all right. I’ve been away just a week and it’s wall to wall weeds and grass 🙂
Hah! And imported Blue Sky as well, I note.
My Mum used to make Damson Jam. A lot. There were endless jars of it in the pantry!
Oh, how I longed for some strawberry. 🙂
And it rained here too! Cats and dogs in Jo’burg at the end of Autumn. Can you believe it?
Rain and rain and rain in Cornwall this week. We got a bad case of rising damp. But things in the garden are zooming away.
Gorgeous promises of things to come, Tish!
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This is beautiful, Tish, so vibrant and cheering. Thank you for finding time in your busy schedule. Hope you’ll have a good time during your break.
I’m back. So thank you for your very kind wishes. We had a lovely if mostly wet time. But took loads of photos despite the deluge 🙂
Where were you exactly?
We were just over the Devon border into Cornwall, and across the Tamar River at Calstock, a few miles south of Plymouth. Lots of narrow winding, up and downy lanes filled with wildflowers and shaded by arcades of beech and oak. Very lovely. Photos to come. Also may have just the thing for your Thursdays Special 🙂
Cool!
There really isn’t anything lovelier than Spring blossom, Tish! Your absence has been noted. 🙂 🙂
I thought you might have a writing project but I forget how busy your garden(s) keep you. Paula mentioned you going away? You know I have constant travel envy. 🙂
Just been to the Tamar Valley for a christening – Cornwall-Devon border. Lovely and lush there with wonderful hedgerows. It rained for 3 solid days but a good one either end to make up 🙂
I gathered you were off somewhere. Glad it was a happy occasion, Tish. 🙂 🙂
It was v. happy, not least the babe, who managed to stay smiling through a one hour service, as well as putting up with the vicar taking her around the entire chapel to smile at all congregation.
What a nice old fashioned chap 🙂
Spring blooms make the world seem reborn anew.
That’s a very lovely way to put it 🙂
Spring has been particularly lovely this year hasn’t it? I walked in a field of orchids the other evening!
Just flitted by your neck of the woods, Gilly, to and from Calstock, and everywhere looked so burgeoning – lovely hedgerows and burstingly green trees.
The countryside and city are beautiful at the moment and always of course, I hope you had a good trip?
Much wetness on Mon, Tues and Wed 😦 But we still enjoyed ourselves 🙂
Beautiful blossoms, lovely spring growth and flowering, such a lovely season!
Definitely a very lovely season.
Lovely 🙂
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Lovely indeed where you are 😊
Lovely it is, Nomzi. Hope all is well with you 🙂
All is well with me dear. How about you? 😊
Am fine, thanks Nomzi, though a little conflicted between writing and gardening. It’s all happening up at the allotment 🙂
I can so imagine. One needs a timetable for sure. Because when that garden calls, it’s not waiting for anybody 😅
You are so right! Tx
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A bit of sunshine and colour to our gloomy day in London!
Glad to be of service, Thomas 🙂
lovely cherries, apples and plums. summer will be bountiful.
I think you’re right 🙂
Gorgeous spring blossoms!
Thank you, Helen. There’ll be more to come too. Just been to the Royal Horticultural Garden at Rosemoor, Devon. It was totally glorious plant and flower-wise.