Early Spring (or not)

[Poirot]

Yeah your right iam a very heavy sleeper i just sleep through those earth tremors. As i am typing now i can hear the birds in the bush outside, springs finally arrived in Staffordshire. This year looks excellent for Bluebells, the woods are capeted with their shoots. Won't be long before the flower stems start to appear.

[badgerwatcher]

What has struck me this year is the profusion of blooms everywhere. Everything seems to be really healthy!
I've had blackthorn in flower and bluebells for a week or so, and banks of primroses and violets, drifts of lesser celandine, white heather and pulmonaria, where I didn't know I had so many!
Butterflies, including a peacock the other day, green woodpeckers shreaking with laughter, all the other birds flying by with huge mossy moustaches, toads singing love songs, jays flashing by like flying rainbows, rooks holding conferences on the lawns. It's all a bit like a Disney cartoon here.
Plus amazing sunsets, and dawn choruses to stop you in your tracks.
Wonderful. Spring in technicolour.
And today misting fine rain covering it all with diamonds.

[Poirot]

Originally Posted by badgerwatcher

What has struck me this year is the profusion of blooms everywhere. Everything seems to be really healthy!
I've had blackthorn in flower and bluebells for a week or so, and banks of primroses and violets, drifts of lesser celandine, white heather and pulmonaria, where I didn't know I had so many!
Butterflies, including a peacock the other day, green woodpeckers shreaking with laughter, all the other birds flying by with huge mossy moustaches, toads singing love songs, jays flashing by like flying rainbows, rooks holding conferences on the lawns. It's all a bit like a Disney cartoon here.
Plus amazing sunsets, and dawn choruses to stop you in your tracks.
Wonderful. Spring in technicolour.
And today misting fine rain covering it all with diamonds.

Wow you could make a great poem out of that description

[badgerwatcher]

I'll get back to you on that one, Poirot.

[Dan Salter]

I hear chiffchaff almost daily but had a good visual yesterday....and the first 2 birds i saw when i looked out my bedroom window today was a beautiful pair of Blackcaps!...lovely birds!

[Susie]

... but then they go and spoil it all by forecasting sleet and snow for Sunday.

[Dan Salter]

Oh Noooooo really?

I had lots of plans this weekend as i didnt get to do anything in the garden over that easter weekend....grrrrr

[Poirot]

If it snows ill be out and about sledging!!!! A bit late for snow

My next door neighbour has planted a plam tree in their garden cannot wait to see that covered with snow, will make an ace picture

Poirot

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Poirot

If it snows ill be out and about sledging!!!! A bit late for snow

My next door neighbour has planted a plam tree in their garden cannot wait to see that covered with snow, will make an ace picture

Poirot

My neighbour planted a palm last year and it died
His garden is so neat and tidy can't have anything out of place
I get the wildlife though. I have lots of natives..

[Poirot]

Its a mirracle really as it was planted in summer 2006!! and is still going strong. It is even flowering at the moment!!!

I missed the snow on it last year, i really hope it snows so i can take a photo and be able to show two completely opposite climates together.