The circle bed: irises, alliums, cotinus, aquilegias and hazel

View from our coffee spot on the patio

This is almost the same view as this photo in March.  In the foreground is the new herb bed, suddenly flourishing

Feeding the bees

Poppy and geums

I turned around...

... and a great branch had fallen off the plum.  We had been planning on cutting it back, but now it just needs tidying up.

Love my new crabapple 'Scarlett'

Planning a new bed at the front of the house

Lilacs 'Microphylla Superba', roses 'Wild Edric', azaleas 'Strawberry Ice', potentillas 'Abbotswood'.  All rabbit-resistant, I hope.  Climbers (clematis 'Montana' and honeysuckles) in tubes.

Living Christmas Decorations

I love young paeony shoots almost more than the flowers

Purple Sprouting Broccoli

Watering the Autumn-planted beech hedge

Circle bed fully mulched

Cooking with Mizuna/Mibuna flowers and Ramsons

Lovely mulch

Ramsons and Swiss Chard - with pasta and cream

I love these jester's caps - Crown Imperial

Salad of overwintered land cress, mizuna and mibuna

Willows from the orchard

Sweet pea seeds started

King Size Navy Blue sweet pea started in loo roll centres

Pulmonaria/Lungwort in sunshine before the woodland canopy closes over

They made it through the winter

My new herb bed

The Swiss Chard

Ladybird, just emerged from hibernation, on foxglove stalk

Keep on weeding until the mulch arrives

All in one day

Blossom in rain - morning

Crocuses in bright sunshine - afternoon

Drumstick primulas

Making compost

Ramsons growing wild in the woods

Blossom - plum?

It's all a bit bleak

The primrose path of dalliance

Bumblebee on heather