I took no photos – all of the pictures here are from late March. Also, I didn’t make many notes (see headline).
From what I did note it started being cold and stormy in December and kept on being cold well into January – temperatures down around 0 degrees for a couple of weeks, which counts as cold around here. Even so the garden kept growing all winter – the daffodils started coming through before Christmas, there were lots of leaf buds on the guelder rose, the lemon verbena and valerian hung on gamely through the winter and there was growth on the honeysuckle and the Japanese anemones and shoots on the flag irises and water lily in the pond. The white skimmia in the back border has been great (photo doesn’t do it justice) and the forsythia and euphorbia have both given splashes of colour. Finally the toads did what toads do in springtime and the pond filled up with toadspawn towards the end of March
The lily of the valley was late coming through – there are photos from last April of them in full leaf and at time of writing (mid -April – see title) they are only just about visible above the ground.
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