Bye bye Siberian icy blasts, hello summer! It’s been all change here in Wenlock and all go, go, go out in the garden. Tulips bursting, crab apple blossom unfurling, Spanish bluebells shooting up, euphorbias at their vibrant, greenest best, pesky weed oxalis suddenly a haze of soft pink flowers just to stop me pulling it up, columbines on the cusp, perennial Centaurea cornflowers showing off their best blues, Sweet Cicely all lacy umbels (and a good addition when cooking fruit to reduce the amount of sugar needed). Ladybirds on pest patrol. Bees on the forage. Cloudless blue above. Hot sun. It’s just all too exciting.
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Ahh lovely when the weather breaks, talk about putting a smile on your face!
Doesn’t it just. I think I’m smiling all over 🙂
Lovely photos, Tish! I can almost touch the ladybug.
Enjoy the excitement. And Easter! 😀
🙂
That ladybird is wonderful, and so’s the header – particularly wonderful, that is.
It was such an obliging ladybird, and there are lots about, which is good because there are already lots of greenflies mustering. The header is another dwarf tulip. They hardly have stems but open out on the soil like stars when the sun catches them.
Stunning shots, Tish. Seems like summer arrived early this year. Happy Easter! 🙂
Early summer it is, Khaya, and hotter today. Who knows what will happen next 🙂
Things are getting a bit chilly down here – on and off, and especially evenings – but the days are still warm enough that I can get away with a short sleeved shirt. Rain has been most welcome and my pot growing veggie experiment is doing swell.
I should be able to harvest my first crop of spuds around June, and I’m hoarding potato slips as fast as I can.
If this first crop turns out okay I’ll go full tilt come September.
The lily looks a real beaut.
Glad to hear the gardening experiments are proceeding, and that you’ve had rain. Just been putting in my spuds. Another row to go. Btw, the header ‘lily’ is a dinky little tulip, related to the original wild strains from Turkey I think. It shuts up tight in the shade and then zooms open in full sun.
Ark! i thought you might have fallen off the earth . Good to read the growing season is going so well.
Fallen off?
Unlike you Christians, I am not so foolish to sail that close to the edge!
😉
Ha ha
Hooray for Spring and ladybirds. I haven’t seen one here for ages ☹️
From the dramatic black and white of your last post to a colorful dance-o-rama here . Spring has indeed sprung with abandon in your garden!
And the sense of abandonment is spreading to the gardener 🙂
Yay! Love the apple blossom
It’s splendid isn’t it? We have horrid tall street lights here that light up the back garden all night, but I have to say the apple blossom went into full opening mode under the enforced twilight. It was v. magical.
I hate street lights! I had to buy a blackout blind for my bedroom!
Us too – front and back as our cottage is a bit short and the lights illuminate both sides. Tried asking the council to switch them off between midnight and 5 a.m. since very little traffic and no people use the street at that time. You would have thought I’d asked to be let off paying Council Tax forever the way they responded. No mention of their wasting resources of course.
Of course not….
Beautiful, Tish. Thank you for the gorgeous spring flowers. Your photos are fabulous!
Thank you, Jennie. Happy Spring!
You are welcome, Tish. Happy Spring to you, too!
Perfect antidote to all that nasty stuff, Tish! Wishing you many happy days in the garden 🙂 🙂
Thanks, Jo. Sod’s law, but is actually too hot in the garden now. But at least it’s cooking the washing.
beautiful spring shots. Well done. Gr Stef
Many thanks 🙂
You seem a few weeks ahead of us. Love the photos. Happy spring!
Greetings back, Angela. It’s most unusual to be so ahead and so hot in April. Thunder forecast in a few days time too.
Exciting indeed! Hung out the washing today too! Have to say we are not bothered with street lights at all! In fact I have my windows blinds open all night, though the full moon can be a bit of a distraction.
The moon has been amazing recently, hasn’t it. Am more than happy to let it in 🙂
Love the Turkmenistan waterlily tulips most of all. Bees love Pulmonaria. Sweet Cicely is a good alternative to curb the sharpness of rhubarb. Spring is busting out even this far North and you have a six spot ladybird for Saturday. Lovely Tish!
Hello, Laura. Lovely to hear from you, up there in the North 🙂
Every thing looks really good. We have had a pretty damaging storm but Resurrection Sunday looks to be glorious.
I know nature is magical all the time, but somehow the burst of spring following winter has a special “something” to it … all that color after all that bitter cold! Beautiful pictures!
We’ve been watching the wood across the field. Over the past few days it’s turned by slow degrees from grey to hint of green, to a bit more green, and just a bit more…
If I had to choose one tulip to grow, I think it would be ‘Little Beauty’. I just love those colours at the centre, and the little minaret the buds make. Your apple blossom photo captures the essence of apple blossom perfectly, with just a hint of sparkle. Enjoy your weekend, Tish!
I agree about Little Beauty, Ali. I wish I had a bit of a bank where I could let them naturalise. Happy weekend to you too.
Gorgeous! I love spring. Here we have magnolia and plum and now cherry trees all bursting forth. And grape hyacinth tulips daffs pansies colour everywhere and soft new green on the trees and rodos and azaleas beginning. It’s so much fun.
Alison
Your spring sounds splendiferous, Alison. So much bursting and blooming.
Go little ladybug!!! 😀 … the sun is trying valiantly to put in any kind of consistent appearance, but I fear we’ll be well into summertime temperatures by then and we’ll go from overcast to blistering heat in a matter of a few days. 🙂
Other half spent formative years in Ontario, so has told me of the sudden summer blasts. Wishing you some temperate sunshine.
All those beautiful colours & species Tish, how wonderful! The Apple blossom is magnificent! So lovely to see your fabulous photos! 😍
Many thanks, Debbie. Love seeing your lovely gravatar smile whenever you comment 🙂
Aww, thank you, Tish..how kind!