Discovering my garden: Spring

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Spring is sprung the grass is riz I wonder where the birdies is?

The weather is milder now and the flowers are blooming. The garden has a define yellow hue from the many daffodils and gigantic forsythia.

Photos are from the last day or 2. Hope you like them, I know the plants aren’t hugely exciting specimens but as this is my first year I’m using these blogs as an audit.

The edibles are showing promise. The raspberries which I tamed in the autumn are now opening their buds.

And the rhubarb is exploding, I’ll have to learn to like it!
I’m experimenting with one crown under a bin and the rest au natural.

The other edible success are the chives. I thougt I’d cut them so hard last year they were gone, but the beautiful oniony chive flavour is fresh and juicey.

My only planting so far are some garlic I started in the garage in coir pots and planted out a month ago. They seem to be growing healthily, time will tell if this late planting will bulb up.

My next step with the edibles are the potatoes I bought at Bridgend Potato day, the bed under the net is ready to go as soon as the chits are at a decent stage.

I grew green manure on this bed, hoping the mustard has conditioned the soil ready for spuds. Thoug I haven’t dug it in, the plants have been composted but I left bits of root to breakdown.

The winter casualty seems to be the bay bush :(

In the rest of the garden bulbs are in full glory.

A host of golden daffodils, in fact many hosts, small, double and bonny ones.

I think of these as the posh ones :)

These are acting out a pastiche of Pink Floyds, The Wall.

Sadly most of my primulas and primroses are slug and snail dessert but this group seem to be immune. Possibly because it surrounded by house leeks?

I love these, and I managed to ID them myself! Muscari, I think? They are sat in a sea of London Pride.

There are lots of helibores dotted around the garden.

There is also a number of these little gems, which I think are anemones? Am I right?

The showpiece at the moment is the hedge of flowering currant anf forsythia. At sunset the gentle east coast glow we call a sunsent shines directly on these 2 huge bushes. I plan to cut the by about a third to keep them bushy.

A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown
Who ponders this tremendous scene
This whole Experiment of Green
As if it were his own!

Emily Dickinson

• 28 Mar, 2011
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