We are experiencing a very slow start to the Spring season.  Here we are in early April and I would say the garden is at least one to two weeks behind if not more.  It is as though everything is on hold and waiting to burst open.  Plenty of green shoots are appearing in the garden beds and there are early flowering bulbs including a few miniature daffodils, crocus and chionodoxa.  

 

 

 

 

 

I walk around the garden early morning and discover new things daily.  In one shady spot there is a group of violets and in another a clump of lemon primroses.

 

 

 

 

 

My spring themed baskets continue to add colour in the garden.If I need any further encouragement I only need to go to my greenhouse where my hanging baskets and a few containers are full of colour.  Basket stuffers are slowly becoming available but because of the late season they are not in abundance.  I did manage to pick up more nemesias, lobelia, calibrachoa and diascia.  I was also happy to discover some wallflowers the other day to replace the ones I lost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diascia

There has certainly been a lot of winter damage particularly to my roses.  I have been slowly pruning them back and hope that they will recover.  By now the rockery creeping plants should be flowering but their blooms are delayed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have started off a few seeds but with going away over Easter I am holding off on doing any further seed sowing.  

How is your garden faring?

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter.