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Signs of life.

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Going slightly stir-crazy so out into the garden despite the miserable grey day (again). Came in 2.5 hrs later in a much better frame of mind. I cut back half the clematis, cut leaves off of the hellebores, cleaned bird baths and generally tidied up. I’m fed up with looking at twigs and collapsed leaves but decided to leave them a while longer for the benefit of the insects.
Here are the current performers:
Snowdrops:


Hellebores:


Honeysuckle:

Crocus:

Coums:

Hope you’re not too daunted by what needs to be done outside. I’m ‘eating the elephant’, a bit at a time!!

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Lovely Hellebores. Nice to see some signs of Spring. Once you do go outside to tidy, you are always there for much longer than you intend :-)

12 Feb, 2023

 

It suddenly seems not a bad time of year with your lovely snowdrops, gorgeous Hellebores (that pink one is a gem Ange), and crocus and cyclamen too. Thanks for the photos 🙂.

12 Feb, 2023

 

Spring has sprung in your garden Ange. Love your honeysuckle . Maybe a plant that our hummingbirds would appreciate at this time of the year.
Pretty hellebore and your cyclamen is doing beautifully. I am jelous because I cannot grow them successfully and it is one of my favourites..

12 Feb, 2023

 

You're absolutely right, FF. There's plenty to crack on with at the moment.

Yes, Sheila, it does start to make me feel more positive once I see plants starting to show their faces. That pink hellebore you mention is lovely every year. Some of mine have not yet fully opened.

Klahanie, perhaps we could swap plants: I could grow your aconites and you could have some of my cyclamen! :)

13 Feb, 2023

 

looking lovely Ange! I myself been cleaning up and made an insect house with twigs and bamboo canes , Snowdrops and helebores look superb Ange

13 Feb, 2023

 

You have some treasure there Ange. I bet you felt much better by the time you went in again!

13 Feb, 2023

 

some lovely plants there Ange. does you good to get out doesn't.

13 Feb, 2023

 

Thanks, Paul. I hope the insects make good use of their new abode!

I did, Stera. I, like most people I suspect, have had enough of the grey.

Definitely, Sbg. I feel like the saying: "I would be unstoppable if I could just get going"...

14 Feb, 2023

 

Well done for starting the Spring clear up ... those Snowdrops are pristine!

14 Feb, 2023

 

They're much better this year, Shirley, despite the drought. We used to have a fair number of different varieties once upon a time.

14 Feb, 2023

 

Lovely selection of spring flowers there Ange. Seen any bumblebees yet? We've got one visiting every day. Our grey wagtail has bought his girlfriend to the garden for the first time today.

21 Feb, 2023

 

I have seen a number of bumbles, Linda, especially on the winter-flowering honeysuckle, although I can't detect any scent on it this year. We have 3 or 4 waggies, too. I was cutting up debris from cutting back yesterday and wondered if any avian friends might make use of the thin twigs, clematis choppings etc. that I put on top of the compost heap.

22 Feb, 2023

 

Good idea to help the birds like that Ange. I usually scatter some barley straw around nearer to nesting time and the sparrows take beakfulls away. I've put an old teapot up but whether any bird uses that for nesting, I don't know.

22 Feb, 2023

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