Early February colour

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The ground is still quite claggy after so much rain but I really wanted to pull up any weeds today, gardening withdrawal symptoms were kicking in!

There was a somewhat milky sun shining down, just enough to waken the Crocus flowers.

There are a fair few clumps of Primroses around the garden now, all divided over the past couple of years and I was thrilled to see some open this morning.

Hellebores are also opening up their buds …

I picked up some fallen leaves off of the lawn, and was cross to find most of the leaves on the flower borders had tiny black slugs on their undersides, straight off to the garden waste bin with those!

For the past three years the biggest bugbear for me is the appearance of what I call Onion grass or weed, and I can only think it came in a bag of compost. At the moment it has very thin straight stems, they go down quite a way before I reach the tiny bulb. My goodness it pops up all over the place, so I used my long handled fork to remove some.

There is a pretty Geum ‘Lisanne’, a compact one with yellow flowers, in a border and when I weeded around it I almost cursed (didn’t though!) as popping up through it was the dreaded Onion weed.

Off to get a sturdier fork, dug the Geum out, pulled it apart to remove the bulbs and ended up with three small pieces to replant.

It cetainly doesn’t look much now, but it will put a growth spurt on as the soil warms up. Mind you, there has been a ground frost for the past two mornings so warmer soil may be a way off yet.

OH cleaned out a bird box, positioned it on an East facing fence, where Bluetits have used it in the past, so fingers crossed they’ll do the same this year.

In my plant creche, where some potted plants are, under the shade of the vine roof and out of the rain, the Clematis bought in the supermarket last year is showing new green growth. It flowered twice last Summer so I’m hoping for some more lovely mauve flowers on it this year.

I hope there are signs of Spring showing in your own gardens, it may be early February but the circle of life is starting over once more, happy gardening one and all!

• 5 Feb, 2025
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