The Beauty of Nature

Some more of my daffodils here. These are adifferent variety to the others. I liked them because of the ‘orange bit in the middle’, a bit like my favourite biscuit. 🙂

Here is a picture of one of my helibors. I have a few varieties, but these ones are my favourite as they contrast with the green leaves. I have another picture somewhere, I will look it out and post later.

The Hyacinth’s are out. They look beautiful as usual. I moved them last year and, as you do, forgot where I planted them, so it was nice to finally find out. 😉

Well, it seems things are beginning to turn around now that the warmer weather is here. The daffodils are coming out and that?s a sure sign things are on the up. It?s been a long hard winter here so any warmth is welcome.

A good sign that spring is rushing towards us are the tulips starting to bud in the garden. I?ve planted a few more varieties this year so I am looking forward to them opening out and filling the garden with colour.

Here I am transplanting strawberries from the plot to home. I want to put them into some hanging baskets to provide an alternative to flowers this year.

I expect I will be surprised at how they deliver fruit. I’m hoping for a good crop. It will be nice, if a little indulgent to be able to lean out of the window and pluck a fresh strawberry to eat.

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Welcome to 2011. I know it’s early this year, but I have decided to focus on my garden a little more this year so need to get things in the grow house early.

So, I’ve begun the gardening year today with the sowing of my sweet peas. They are a free-flowering variety so should give lots of lovely blooms and as I have sown them early, they should start to flower early as well.

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I’ve not been doing much on the plot of late, it’s too cold and there is nothing up there. I didn’t grow sprouts this year, I’ve gone off them a bit.

I did do the compost last week. That was odd as I found a spoon and food wrappers and other rubbish in it. It seems someone up there is using my composter as a dustbin! That’s not very nice.

This rather pretty bush was seen on the heath. I was rather taken with the flowers, like trumpets. I realise it’s not a plant you would want in your garden, but here it looked fine, giving colour to an otherwise bland scene.

I saw this small bird singing up on the heath. It looks quite plump but I expect it will need it this year as they say the winter will be as harsh as the last one.

I?m not looking forward to the snow again as I have left some plants out this year and covered them with fleece. Normally that does the trick, but not always. Some may not survive, but if I only have my garden to focus on next year, then that may spur me on to plant more.