Yo-ho, yo-ho.
I have been rumbled, so R says. I love gardens and plants and design but not gardening! She said this as she tidied the biggest flower bed though I had been weeding, well hoeing, the asparagus bed.
All is not helped by an attack of vertigo, bad back and general desire to be asleep rather than digging and shifting compost.
R is disappointed that the fallen tree up the garden has partial hidden the sweep of snowdrops into the wood.
And we have our first catkins on the hazel despite the attempts to eat the shrubs by the roe deer.
We are plagued by tiny gnats that have come from the compost of some of the house plants. Have put gravel on the top of the compost and sticky yellow cards above. Still plagued despite catching hundreds.
There are other signs of spring - birds calling, buzzards circling, the heron searching for emergent frogs - but no lambs in the back field yet.
Elsewhere quince and viburnums flower - yes I know I included a pic of Viburnum bodnantense Dawn in the last blog but it looks so good. Actually only wrote the last sentence after I realised I had - not the same photo but very like it.
I am not allowed down the garden at the moment if R is out in case I topple over. Mind you a cup of tea and a nap is more the thing.
Must do my exercises for the vertigo but now have a bad back - excuses, excuses.
So I nipped out to get a rose or roses for St Valentine's Day from the garden centre - 'Sorry, we don't have any." So had to be a deep purple cyclamen.
Jemima and friend are back on the pond. As the lower banking is not cut I wonder if she will nest in there again?
Went out today, R to tidy the back bed, me to tidy the compost heaps and try to light the bonfire - far too wet of course. And then it started raining.
Time for a cup of tea, the crossword and some rest.
Hope all is well with you and your loved ones.
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