Spring is around the corner.

Those Cyclamen are to die for. The pheasant looks a bit skinny, hope she avoids any guns.

Wonderful cyclamen, and the scent is a real bonus! All I have is a few primroses and today just found two snowdrops!
No pheasants though!

Agree, the cyclamen is very beautiful, Eileen! Plus the longevity of them - wonderful!
Mrs Hen Pheasant looks like she’s busy en route somewhere! Lovely to see the vivid yellow aconites peeking through!

Mrs pheasant was waiting for me when I went to fill the feeders this morning; she is certainly feeding herself up today Siris.
My snowdrops are also poking through Stera but a long way off from being fully out.

She certainly isn't running away this morning Kate as long as she doesn't go nipping buds off she'll be welcome. I love all Cyclamen and have done since I was little girl.

Give them time Meadow and they will get bigger and bigger each year. Dead head them so they don't waste energy on setting seed.

I am still waiting for bulbs to actually come up yet! My dwarf daffodils are just showing , but I was so late putting all my tulip and daffodil bulbs in a big raised bed. Some in the front garden are showing now.

It's nice to think spring is arriving slowly and the garden is starting to wake up :)

Very pretty cyclamen. Lucky you with your lady visitor! I'm thrilled - I have ONE aconite returning! A real success for me. I have planted some every year for the past 5 years, this is my only repayment... ( Same with crocuses which shrink every year ...).

Lovely to see spring flowers coming out! I've seen plenty of Snowdrops around town but the couple I planted on the balcony last year don't seem to have put in an appearance this year - yet! But there is always hope!

In the autumn last year I dug up a very narrow bed alongside a wall at the church I attend. The poor Daffs that had been there for donkeys' year were getting worse by the year. So I dug the whole bed up & took out the few surviving bulbs I could find, mixed in some spent compost to improve moisture retention & to open up the soil a little & then planted bulbs I had taken over from the balcony last year.

The first few Daffs have been flowering for a couple of weeks now & there are lots more to come! 😃

The cyclamens are simply gorgeous!

Your cyclamen are gorgeous. Make your heart sing, don't they?

It doesn't matter where I live my bulbs are always slower than anyone else's. There are quite a number of snowdrops out now but I have only one or two so far. The daffodils are showing through but not far enough to see any buds, yet further up the road they are almost in flower. I do though, have one (so far) blue Anemone Blanda peeping through the front garden rockery.