the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la

............looking at the notes from last year, some things are blooming in the spring tra-la a bit earlier. the winter has been pretty cold with proper frost, but now that the clocks have changed it feels like spring and we've had a bliz today............only the second real full day's gardening of the year but what a difference a little bit of work makes................i tidied out the shed a few weeks ago and got rid of a lot of clutter...........some of the veg seeds are planted in the greenhouse and we're enormously proud of our winter salads which are only now beginning to bolt. everyone who comes to visit gets dragged into the greenhouse to admire the pak choi..........most stuff still just at the preparation stage but we are very much more organised than last year, thanks to having the greenhouse. but today was the first proper prowl round............so i hoed and weeded the fruit beds, moved the whitecurrant and Isabel's alpine strawberries and tied up the raspberry canes..................tidied the bit where the paeonies are and moved Helga the iris down to join the irises "Harmony", glad to see she's had some babies...........lots of things are just beginning to show, like the catmints, but lots in full swing already. and most exciting of all............there is FROGSPAWN in the pond!!...............