WHAT A DIFFERENCE

 A mow makes!

Spring equinox, temperature 16C, not a cloud, at last!

The Madame Lefebre tulips are out as is one of the camellias.

We have our first forgetmenots, wood anemones in the wood (of course), and both the white honesty and one of the cherries is showing petals. The magnolia stellata is well on the way and joins pulmonarias and hellebores. At the back of the house we have leaves coming on the cercidiphyllum and flowers on the flowering currant. And I have failed to light the bonfire yet again.

Primroses dress the lower woodland edge. Note the logs - need chopping.

R has been hard at it shifting branches to the bonfire and dividing snowdrops now they are in the green.

Other wild things in the garden include the rabbits that are digging everywhere and down by the stream the opposite leaved golden saxifrage is doing well.

And of course there are daffodils. R suggested we dug up all but the native wild daffodil so I said she can if she wants - go and look at how many there are - she changed her mind.

Mind you the wild daffodil - Narcissus pseudo narcissus is the best.

We are in a short dry spell so have been watering the pots. Winter is done for.

R suggests we buy in lots of seeds to grow our own food after Putin throws his nuclear weapons about. It seems no one can argue with him. Perhaps a good laugh in his face would help - or put all the dictators in a locked room and tell them they can only come out when they have decided to be nice? Might be some personality conflicts there?

It is evening, the shadows lengthen and better days approach.