The lesser celandines have been flowering since December, and never mind three lots of snow dumped on them. It’s all very confusing. To me the opening of these sunny little flowers has always signalled the start of spring, so I’m posting this photo to mark its official, if not the actual arrival on our side of the planet. Am also hoping that Siberia will recall her wind-hounds, and double-quick. Enough icy blasts already.
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Some slightly wonky circles in a square for Becky’s March Square #20
Tish Farrell 
Beautiful capture and here’s to a happy and warm Spring 😊
Cheers, Becky!
Good morning. Thanks for the reminder of spring and yes please Siberia…enough already 🙂
Hello Janet. Today we have bright sun, but there are still drifts of snow about the place. Even so the little daffodils in the front garden have raised their heads again. Good on them!
Happy spring equinox! Pablo Neruda has been right:”Spring is inexorable!” 🙂
And Happy Spring to you too, Melanie 🙂
Or Nairobi could send some sun though we are in short supply at the moment
Hear you’ve been getting too much rain up and down the land.
Yes, a lot of it. I think a few people have been so unfortunate or fortunate depending on how you look at it, to be washed away
Here, here to all that! Spring now please. Thanks for sharing your lovely photos 🙂
We actually had snow at around 11 last night which made me go outside to cover all the plants which I’d removed from the greenhouse confident spring had arrived
It’s certainly been catching us out garden-wise.
Exactly so! 🙂 🙂 Poor wee thing! A spark of life 🙂 🙂 Mick was muttering about the Beast mark 3 but I didn’t listen. 😦
Wise girl
Oh no! Do we need to start mixing up some anti-beast spells. The daffodils have only just got themselves up from the prone position.
Lovely, Tish! The wind hounds from Siberia seem to be heading back home from these parts, but perhaps I’m speaking too soon….😧
Fingers and all parts crossed!
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It is cool again here but I do think Spring is here. Of course with Easter still almost two week away who knows. Your little flower smiles.
Blue sky and super sunshine today, but don’t let that fool you. Ice in the bucket and a frigid wind blowing. My little daffs have raised their heads once more, the hellebore have given up the ghost and half hardy perennials and fuchsias are very brown. Sigh… looks like lots of visits to the nurseries next month. Now do I stick to my plan of a southern hemisphere garden or default to hardy species only.
Now there’s the rub. But since you’ve asked me, I think I would opt for hardy species. Annoying, I know, when you have other ideas.
The dilemma being that we get this sort of weather more often / we don’t get it for another 10 years. Containers could be the answer to some of the more tender plants, then I can bring them indoors. Or move to the Algarve!!
I like that last suggestion, though they seem to have had some freezing stuff even in southern France.
The south of France was my first choice, but I had also heard that they suffered from extremely low temperatures. France appeals to me.
It appeals to me too.
Quite a striking contrast …
Beautiful composition 🙂
Many thanks, Sreejith.
A bright and cheerful flower in a world that is still grey, Tish! Let Siberia recall its wintery blasts, which were blowing in the wrong direction. Have a great week!
Thank you, Peter. A good week to you too. Any sign of spring in your neck of the woods?
No obvious signs yet, the snow is melting, rain in the forecast for tomorrow, the first robin on the snow covered lawn. In short, there is hope.
I have this grotty feeling we are soon going to be freezing our backsides off down here pretty soon ….
not looking forward to winter this year at all.
It seems that anything could happen!
I predict you lot will be complaining about the drought in two or three months!
More than likely. For the last couple of years we’ve had a totally dry spring with lots of wind to make it even drier. Just now we are sodden. Lots of full water butts though.
Oh, and I like the blue background. Very soothing.
Thank you. I just pressed the button that says ‘match your header’ and bingo!
Beautiful flowers!
Spring seems slow to spring most everywhere. We packed up and went to Mexico.
Now that’s a strategy I like the sound of. Happy travels, Sue.
Lovely, Tish. Cold and windy here, the latter a fairly regular Chicago-area occurrence. Nothing blooming yet, although the daffs and others are growing every day. Can’t wait until they arrive and hopefully no frosts after that! Happy spring!
janet
More power to the growing!
Oh, my neck of the woods could have used a few icy blasts at the weekend. 69 houses burnt to the ground in a township 100 km down the coast: configured so like Potato Point. And now it’s cool and raining – almost a nose-thumbing by the weather devils. I thought I’d catch spring in full flight in Warsaw in early April (an unannounced visit for 7 weeks, therefore no mention on my blog), but maybe not.
I can only imagine how awful it would be to have one’s home caught up in a forest fire – devastation material and spiritual. You might not see spring in April, but surely by May…How exciting though. Off to Poland.
What a lovely sunny yellow to greet the day. A true survivor
Our seasons have all gone to pot, winter doesn’t really start until after Christmas and last year we hardly had any frost down here!
Definitely gone to pot!
So beautiful! Just what is needed here in snowy New England. 🙂
Are you freezing there? I’ve heard your winters can anyway be brutal quite apart from what this year’s weather systems have been throwing at us.
Yes, we are freezing here. #4 nor’easter is on the way, but thankfully we should be spared the worst of the storm. Typically March is cold and muddy to start, with temperatures in the 40’s. By the end of the month grass and crocuses are growing. Temperatures are in the 50’s and sometimes flirting with 60. This winter has been hanging on! Thanks, Tish.
Onwards and upwards!
Indeed!