At the weekend, I took myself out on my bike and on foot - if it wasn't far! - to see if anything was in bloom, especially after that brutal spell of cold weather that although hadn't dropped any snow on the ground, there had been some very hard frosts.
Of course, there's one location that always seems to have the first flowers emerging, and when I rode off down there on my bike, in the same little patch of ground as ever, snowdrops were out.
I swear it's always the same bulb that comes up first every year, the first of the little white flowers always seems to be in exactly the same place by the Polish Air Bridge memorial in the cemetery.
I wonder how many years this has been the case - I'm sure I've been finding them in that spot for over ten years or more!
The other place I like to look is in The Friary Gardens, where the aconite grows. I've been down a couple of times, and haven't spotted any little yellow spots of colour under the trees yet. However, they've been beaten into flower by red dead nettle.
I think it might be a bit early for them yet.
At work, we have some rather sorry looking daises poking up, but the most vivid sight is not a flower at all. It is the vivid pink coral berries, where a mere couple of months ago there were bees feeding off the bright coral berry flowers
I will keep you posted - we also seem to be a bit ahead of the rest of you here!
Si
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Is that a little dead nettle?
ReplyDeleteGreat finds, especially when others see only a grey muddy winter. Down here on the south coast we seem to be only a few days away from first daffodils. (They are in for a surprise if it turns cold agsin.)
ReplyDeleteNice one, I will try to see them as well. Cheers Si.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos, it's always nice to see the first signs of Spring!
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