The Easter weekend

On Easter Saturday we had our first butterfly of the year in the garden – a comma. On Sunday we had a Speckled Wood and a White.

On Saturday – as previously mentioned, we had out first Siskin and on Sunday we had quite a few of them – all female this time. The niger seed also attracted the pair of Goldfinches and some House Sparrows.

Usually all our frogs go into hiding when Helen visits but this week-end one was kind enough to say hello on Sunday.


There are now quite a few flowers out but the Daffodils and Tulips still provide the high-spots of colour.

A new visitor

We had a new visitor to our garden today. A male Siskin. It is the first time since we came here nearly five years ago that we have had a Siskin.



The Cherry in the front is at its peak. The first of the Bluebells also flowered in the sunshine and new Tulips are coming out every day.

Some new plants

This box arrived a couple of days ago from Flora Select. It contains some of the plants on my 'wanted' list - Perovskia 'Little Spire', Pennisetum alopecuroides and Schizostylis "Fenland Daybreak".

Examples of these three can be seen in the side column. I also got some Liriope muscari - Lilyturf. Hopefully I shall photos of my own ones before too long.

I can thoroughly recommend Flora Select. They are not cheap but no dearer than a garden centre and the speed, packaging, delivery instructions, size and quality of the plants are all excellent.

Flowers - January to March

I’ve had an idea. Oh dear, stand back everyone. He’s thinking again.

In January I started keeping a note of the flowers that were in bloom each month. It won’t be complete this year because I shall be away for much of May and June but it will be an interesting exercise. I should also put the major seedheads and foliage when they are at their best.

Today, while thinking, I came up with the idea of doing composite photos of each months flowers and blogging them.

January was pretty easy –



And here is February:-



March had a lot more flowers out:-


I should have named the photos but I shall do that another time and perhaps come back and replace the pictures.