Got out in the garden sunshine yesterday, and saw several flowers in bloom; crocuses, primroses, everlasting wallflowers, a single daff, and snowdrops. Other people with south-facing plots have had irises and things out for a while already (the bastards!). Spring can't be far away.
Started doing stuff in earnest, like dumping lots of rotted horse manure on beds, planting up primroses, re-potting lilies and aliums, pruning apple trees, clearing weed from the pond, clearing accumulated dead wood and rubbish, turning the compost pile etc...still got to put a bunch of clematises in, more pruning, building a work station, trimming all the hedges...and then got the allotment to start on. And the real work hasn't started yet.
If we get time, there might be a moment to sit down and appreciate what's already there.
