Spring has sprung in the garden at last…

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Sorry it’s been so long since I participated, but I have been trying to keep up with everyone’s blogs and posts.
Now that T is getting back to his old self we have been trying to get the garden looking a bit more like we own it. So many leaves to rake up and bag, it felt at times that we would never manage to clear them all. Thankfully T can drive again so he took loads to the recycling centre. Anyway we have managed it and I have been able to apply the bagged manure to the borders. I had it delivered last Autumn but didn’t have the time for one reason or another, to use it until now. No wonder it makes the plants shoot up….I swear my neck is at least 3 inches longer trying to get my nose as far as possible from the smell…
As I worked around the borders I took a few photos as a record of the plants up and flowering this March..
These Hyacinth seem to double up each year and they have a lovely scent. (they don’t have to compete with the smell of the manure here in the edge of the rockery)lol

The cyclamen originally as a gift of seeds from Brian, are spreading brilliantly through the rockery too..

The Ribes are always a welcome sight in full flower this month, as are the various primula and blue Hyacinth dotted around..

The Helebore have outdone themselves this year. I cut off all their old leaves when I was clearing the other leaves and it’s great to see the flowers at last.

The cheanomelies to the right of the pergola looks beautiful and such an eye catching scarlet.

..and the peony from Brian is showing real promise for lots more flowers this spring.

The Magnolia in the front garden is bursting with flowers again this spring. Fingers crossed we don’t get the awful severe frost we got last year which totally ruined the flowers. It left it looking like brown paper bags hanging from the branches!!

Same goes for my February/March blossoming Greengage.

A whole year since I sowed my Broccoli, we picked and cooked the first purple florets yesterday. I reckon they were seeds meant for the farmers fields, they grew so tall and bushy. I won’t be bothering with this sort again!!

I don’t know if you noticed T had put in new steps up to the top garden. He completed them just before he became ill. It’s made it so much easier for me to move stuff up and down. The following is a blog I started back then….I was finding it increasingly difficult carrying things up and down the garden so I bought a step climber to carry heavy sacks etc but found it awkward to navigate the old steps up and down from the top lawn. T and I put our heads together and decided to alter the access and put steps more or less straight down between two apple trees using most of the original slabs, bricks and stone.
By moving the steps I have gained a good area beside the greenhouse where I will be able to stand a cold frame once T has built me one!! T is about to level and re pave that area today.
This is where the old steps were. T has put breeze blocks there temporarily, they will hold back the soil we have dug out from the new steps area and thrown into the area where the old steps were. T found a bucket full of Daffodil bulbs 2 foot down in the soil that he dug out for the new steps.! No wonder they never flowered there!!!

The new steps are much easier to walk up and down.

I love it now and T has built me a cold frame that sits in the space left by removing the old steps…

Thanks for looking around my garden. I am off to sow a few more seeds in the toastie warm greenhouse now…xxx
I love this time of year, full of promise and hope..

• 22 Mar, 2022
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