why did we worry?
all the despondency a few weeks back that spring would be drab has come to nothing
flowers everywhere including white osteospermums ...one clump must be 2 metres across with huge white flowers on a hardy specimen. white cascading Anthemis too. Yellow osteos, azaleas, wallflowers, abutilons, tulips, lithodoras, geums, scabious, delphiniums, tulips, euphorbias, pieris, dicentras, heucheras,,tiarellas and heucherellas, ribes, .......etc. etc...and the real summer stuff still to come 
blossom on apples, pears, blueberries too......drab??
will this weird unseasonal weather herald more early summer flowering?
an exciting spring I think filling me with optimsim that summer too will be offering us a bounty 
. Of course the long heatwave will be appreciated too 
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When am I getting the heatwave Verd?
My daffs are looking good!
Starting to look greener and healthier up here now - the hawthorn hedges are all looking fresh and bright. Lots of trees getting a green haze which always helps. Many plants a little later though. It's been a drier spring but much colder on the whole.
It's a good time of year - full of optimism as you say
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I need to look out different windows. I can see five tulips! Eleventy seven million dandelions and lots and lots of green. Not a bloom is stirring.
I even have stumps in pots. I clearly went to great pains last year to pot something up and now it's been eaten down to the nub and I don't remember what it was. Rubbish rubbish rubbish.
Good morning
Fairy, I walked around the garden yesterday and was heartened to see bud and blooms almost ready
the Camasia is going to be super this year, it is I fear just going to be a short season
time for hope
A A Milne
Water hawthorn's lovely Tetley. I had it in a previous pond but it doesn't survive overwinter here, so I didn't buy it for this new one.
Might change my mind though if I put it in a pot and then lift it and overwinter it somewhere.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sake!
Don't look at the lawn edges, just look at the colour ....... wallflowers and tulips thrown in last autumn when I had no time to do any proper gardening just so that we'd have some colour this spring
As for heatwave ... thin summer duvet on the bed last night, windows wide open all night - sweltering now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They're beautiful Dovefromabove. I love this time of year when everything springs into life
Tut Tut Dove - untidy grass edging? What have you been doing with your time? I don't know....
Lovely to have a good bit of colour. Must cheer you every day
I'm enjoying the deep violet Ronaldo tulips I planted in the autumn, The lack of stormy wet weather has meant they're doing very well. Can't put a pic on though.
Must be warmer here - haven't needed the heating on this morning!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes
the heat is coming our way Fairy
The last time Verdun promised me good weather he was right
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New growth is coming on apace, noticeable every day.