A Touch of Spring at last

Hi Sandra
Beautiful flowers in your garden.
I hope you have good health this year.
Good that your 10 fish are doing well.
Enjoy Benidorm :o)) xxx

Lovely pictures Sandra.......the leaves of the Spirea are a beautiful colour! Here's wishing a very healthy year in 2013!

Hi Terra thankyou so much, i dont have lots of flowery plants at the moment but just to see some colour cheers me up, hopefully i can get it looking at least tidy before we go away then when im back i can get my pots planted up.
The new fishies are similar colours to mine, Greys/multi but with them long floaty tails, very nice so glad they are ok in my pond :o)) xx

Hi Paul and many thanx, i love the spirea to its a warm glowing colour :o)) x

Spirea is gorge!
Am wondering what is still actually in my garden and what will flower this year!
No goldfish....only 3 minnows and lots of toad eggs. I miss my fish. Am re thinking the pond. I was going to lift it, level it on the ground and put turf dug up from my shrubs around it, like a small hill. Then I see newts laying eggs and all sorts going on and now not sure if I can move it without disturbing the wildlife!

thanx Lou, i would think carefull before moving cause when i redid mine was loads of baby froggies at bottom under mud, not sure when best time would be infact as you are bound to disturb something, could you not leave that one for wildlife Lou then have a new one for fishies :o))
i have a net over mine all the time now cause of Herons taking fish :o(

Hope you have much better health this year, lovely photos, I really like that daffodil, such a pretty colour combination.

Hi Sandra love the spirea it's the gold flame isn't it? Sounds like a nice trip your going on, hope its nice and hot over there and a nice rest from our weather :-)

thankyou Louisa i hope so to, i love the Daffs with the salmon centres, so different and last well to :o))

Hi surreylad, isnt the spirea a lovely colour, so inviting,
should be nice weather in Benidorm, we just totally chill, lovely promanade walks to the old town then sangria while looking out over the beautifull sea :o))

Have a lovely time Sandra
You deserve it, and a happy healthy summer x

I agree with you really, after the awful growing seasons
I,m going for more perennials...and I,ve planted some hardy annuals in some pots, see what happens!

All looking lovely San!

Looking good hope you have a better year

lovely Sandra - what nice flowers and hoping for a great year for you - been nice having you as a friend :-)))

Lovely photos Sandra, here's hoping for a happy and healthy year for you. Enjoy your trip :)

Lovely blog San. I see your Spiraea is doing wonderfully! Great to hear about the fish you inherited. Hope your health will be tip-top from now on. :)

San, I'm very envious of your Pulsatilla in photo 2, everyone but me seem to have theirs in bloom! Will you go for variegated shrubs to brighten up the garden? I think they look especially good in the Autumn and Winter when the flowers are coming to an end. Your new fish sound very exotic! Keep smiling ... :o)

A lovely selection San ,your garden is awash with early spring colour , you know I always think of you when my Jack Frost is blooming because you introduced me to him :o))

I agree with you Shirley, but I lost a few variegated shrubs this winter...I don't think they are as tough as normal green vars.

Hi Sandra good to see you around, hope your health continues to improve and you enjoy your holiday, your gardens looking grat, I do you love the Wind Flowers;0)

Gorgeous plants San......So glad you are feeling better....xx

Hi San good to see you again, hope after your trip to Spain you will be up and raring to go, amazing what a little break can do......
Love that Brunnera, ours still tiny, but one of my favourites, pleased your pond is doing well and you have some new inmates, take care...xx

Hi San its good to see a blog from you, pleased to hear you are better now and hope it stays that way, you'll soon get back into the garden now your health has improved and lets face it the hard work has already been done, its never a case of finishing as we are always finding new plants and shrubs that we like and that often calls for change but thats the good bit, after last years debacle I wasn't going to bother with so many either but it isn't working that way as I once again have trays full of seedlings of bedding for this year, I'll never hang myself and thats a fact!!!!!

All looking good San, glad you are feeling better last year was no fun, Enjoy your Holiday in the sunshine :o)

Let's hope we get some sunshine and good summer weather this year Sandra. Glad to hear that your health has improved. Hope you have a super time in Spain. Your garden has sprung into life and colour and hope the new fish settle in well too. We've lost lavenders and other plants so have been looking for replacements.

Hope you along with the garden spring into life especially after a few days holidays to charge your batteries. All is coming along fine in your garden with some nice splashes of colour.

Lovely splashes of colour,San..makes us all feel so much better for seeing them..so glad you are feeling better,and looking forward to your Holiday..that will be great..It's about 30 years since we were there,and used to love wandering round the old town..I guess it won't have changed much..glad your new fishies have settled in well,take care,and lovely to see you back on here..you have been missed,as you can see from all the comments XX

Thankyou all my friends on such lovely comments and well wishes, im not going till 4th may but only two weeks off now, i do think having such wonderfull GOY friends and sharing our gardens and other things helps to keep us going in hard times, i hope you all enjoy a lovely summer in your gardens this year, think we all need one.
Been out to see my pond today after work and found i have lots of frogspawn im so excited and cant wait to see tadpoles, baby frogs hoping about etc, my new inmates as Angela calls them are doing so well concidering they have only been in a small tank in my friends house for their first year, anyway without writing all your names a big thankyou again,
hugs
sandra
xxxx

Woohoo! You do have some Frogspawn after all ... :o)

yee arrrr i surely do shirley haha, will post pic later, just enjoying garden today, its so sunny :o))

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The brunnera is gorgeous - so much nicer than the plain ones for the rest of the year. And the little anemones are favourites of mine - lovely to see them, and the appear so quickly just when you were giving them up as lost!
Good to hear you are getting stronger again take it easy at first!

Thankyou Steragram, i love the Brunnera to though not as big this year for some reason and love Anemones so sweet, im alot better thanx and go for check up on 17th may so hoping all ok :o))