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Six, flowering in the garden this week. It’s really colouring up now! 🌿💕💜🌼🌿 #sixonsaturday #springflowers #pinkflowers

Blue skies are back this morning after yesterday’s storms 💙🌞 Good job the spring flowers are pretty hardy!
Happy #FlowersOnFriday #springflowers

Popped to the garden centre for some new shoes earlier in the week. The gardeners mate new what I’d come home with 🪴🪴🪴🪴 & no new shoes 🤗
#PlantsOrShoes #plantaholic #newplants

I learned from someone on X that this is actually Chionodoxa (Glory of the snow). Always learning!

Isn’t this the sweetest little primula? And the satisfaction of having grown it from seed 🙂🤍🌿 #primula #whiteflowers

Scilla siberica, also known as Siberian Squill, will seed themselves all around your garden. These have made their way under my lavender path. I constantly move the little bulbs to enjoy them elsewhere 🌿💙🌿💙🌿💙
#tuesdayblue #blueflowers #scilla

This osteospermum sheltering in my greenhouse over winter is well ahead of the game 🩷🩷🩷🩷🌿 Just shows what a mild winter we’ve had! #magentamonday #pinkflowers #mildwinter

What’s more #SundayYellow than a daff 💛🌼🌞🌼💛
Blooming at a time of year when we are desperate for some brightness 🔆 #Narcissi #daffodils

No sooner do the frogs arrive than they’re off again. To where, I do not know! But their job is complete for this year, leaving lots of spawn to start the cycle once more. Just a few left, on guard 🐸🐸🐸 #sixonsaturday #pond #frogs #spawn #wildlife

What a super week, giving us a taste of spring 💙🌸💜🌼🌿
I’m surprised how many Anemones I have flowering.
#sixonsaturday #anemone #hellebore #daffodils

This week’s beautiful spring-like weather has got the garden blooming & brought out the insects 🐝🌸🐞🌼🌿
#FlowersOnFriday #blooms #insects #hellebores

I’m pretty sure this is the earliest I’ve had a Peacock butterfly in the garden. In fact the earliest butterfly, period! 🦋
Lovely to see, but not necessarily a good sign! 🤔
#InsectThursday #butterfly #insects #wildlife #peacockbutterfly

You obviously like your potatoes Mike 🥔🥔🥔 sounds good 👍

It’s nice to catch up with people here & X, but more important to be in the garden 🪴😁

What’s chitting on your windowsill?
We don’t eat many potatoes, so I only grow 1 type, but Patch had an offer where you could buy a small amount of 3 varieties. Perfect! So we have Celebration, Arran Victory & Purple Rain, which have purple flesh 💜🥔
#potatoes #homegrown #gyo

Hi Helen, no I’ve just had a couple of months break from all socials. Our renovations were just taking all my band width. So, I thought as there wasn’t much going on in the garden, I’d sneak a break 😁 Hope you & your partner are well & ready for spring xx

Thank you 🌿

A bit of ladybird rescue & disbursement was required after I’d put some garden chopping into the green bin 🐞🐞🐞🐞
#wildlifewednesday #wildlife #ladybird #ladybug #insects

The snowdrops (galanthus) at the base of our wonderfully tactile Walnut tree 🌳🤍🌿
#thicktrunktuesday #snowdrops #walnut #trees #Galanthus

The purple sprouting broccoli was loving the sunshine 🥦☀️💜🌿 #TuesdayBlue #Homegrown #growyourown #veg

First little harvest of purple sprouting broccoli 🥦😊😋
#Homegrown #growyourown #broccoli #purplesprouting

The primulas offer such bright colour from February through to April 🌿💕🌸💕🌿 #Primula #springcolour #MagentaMonday

Autumn onions finally gone into the ground. I started them off in October in pots & just haven’t found the time to get them in. They’ll romp away now! 🧅🧅🧅 #growyourown #onions #kitchengarden #Homegrown

Happy St. David’s Day from North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌼
There’s enough blue sky to make a sailor’s suit so it’s looking hopeful for another perfect gardening day 🌤️💙🌿
#StDavidsDay #1stMarch #SundayYellow #springflowers

These purple veined crocus called ‘Pickwick’ are so reliable, I planted them years ago & up they pop every year 🌿💜🤍💜🤍💜🌿 #crocus #springflowers #purpleflowers

The frogs returning to my pond make me truly happy 🐸 I’ve counted roughly 65, 5 up on last year.
This one knows he’s my favourite & is such a poser! #frogs #frog #pond #wildlife #wildlifepond #wildlifegarden #garden #mygarden

What a simply beautiful day! 🌞🌸🌿
You can’t believe that last week we were freezing our bits off 🥶 Long may it continue! #hellebores #Springsaroundthecorner

Back to (paid) work today 🥶
Time to work off all that festive food 🍫🍰🥐🧀🍷🥂🥃
#BackToWork #snow #winter #newyear
PS I wasn’t driving 😇

Happy new year everyone ☃️🍒❄️
If this snow had come before Christmas, the snowy pyracantha berries would have made a good Christmas card!
#snow #wintergarden #pyracantha

Garden Diary – It’s Christmas & we’re past the shortest day! Christmas festivities and we’ve celebrated the winter solstice. I think non of us can wait to get to the other side of the shortest day, and feel we are heading back towards summer.

Garden diary - snowy photos & living stones.
#blog #gardenblog #snow #Christmas
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