Yesterday was the first real day of spring in our garden.
That is, the first day warm and sunny enough to tempt me out of the house to actually see what’s happening out there.
It was a pleasant surprise.
Far from everything being dead, as expected, there are some lovely things growing!
The forget-me-nots are just opening, peeping out from under the hedge and between blades of uncut grass at the edge of the lawn.
The oriental poppies have produced an encouraging show of greenery:
But the stars of this spring’s show are the primroses…
I remember as a child watching Geoffrey Smith on telly.
Forever with a pair of pruning shears in hand, he seemed always hell bent on “cutting back hard”, hacking shrubs to shreds and dishing out his particular brand of tough love to plants.
I think this must’ve penetrated my subconscious and scarred me, for I am not a ruthless gardener.
I should have taken a tough approach with my prims at the end of last spring, dividing them up so they were more evenly spread across the border, giving them room to grow. But a combination of holidays away, laziness and a feeling of pointlessness at the very thought of gardening following such a poor summer weather-wise, meant that I didn’t bother.
As it turns out, my prims knew what to do and have turned out proper without any help from me.
The primroses are really lovely this year aren’t they? I was surprised to see so much greenery in the sunshine yesterday too. I love the pics of your forget-me-nots 🙂
I love forget-me-nots! Lovely photographs 🙂
Full of the joys of spring indeed. I don’t find it easy to cut back either but somehow nature does the job. Enjoy!
So lovely to finally see some colour in the garden! I’m terrible at pruning, well at most ‘active’ gardening really – I let nature do the job, with an occasional extra water from me when it’s hot (has it ever been hot, really? I can’t remember how that feels! will it ever be again?!). I love your forget-me-nots and primroses, I have bluebells due to flower soon and some tiny wild violets…definitely a day for pottering round the garden. Happy Sunday! xx
We have a little patch of wild dog violets in the grass! And lots of alliums are coming up – my favourite flowers. I hope they all flower, last year I only got three!
I’ve just ventured into the garden for the first time this year and we have beautiful yellow primroses that have seeded from next door, they are gorgeous and so sunny … Sarah x
It seems to have been a bumper year for them. Usually the flowers on ours get eaten by slugs, but I think the cold winter has helped reduced the number of pesky slimeballs this year!
It is so nice to see the flowers coming out. My garden has just started going into bloom….The forget-me-nots are wonderful, that you have above 🙂
I love your spring photos! I’m not a gardener, but I do like looking at gardens.