Over Easter and the week after the weather has been brilliant - warm sunny days with just occasional cold wind and showers. Great for the flowers and trees which are starting to blossom. Birds are singing and starting to nest - a proper Spring!
It's been so lovely I've spent a lot of time in the garden - planting potatoes and beans, sowing salad and chard, potting up primroses that have seeded in the lawn - and not much time blogging.
The snowdrops have all gone over but there are hundreds of daffodils of different colours and flower-shapes growing in the beds and the lawn (great excuse for putting off the mowing!).
Some of the spring flowers are so lovely and delicate like these
Erythroniums - or dogs tooth violets - growing in our front garden. They're not violets at all. Apparently the "dogs tooth" refers to the shape of the bulb.
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| Erythroniums or dogs tooth violets |
Also
Snakes Head Fritillaries which increase every year and whose bell-shaped flowers come in a variety of colours between deep purple and cream all with their distinctive check pattern..
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| Snakes head fritillaries |
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