There is a conversation that takes place round about now, it goes like this:
Me: What the hell's that?
Carrie: Dunno
Me: Was it there last year?
Carrie: Don't think so
Me: Is it that wee blue thing?
Carrie: Could be
Me: I could have sworn I planted it over there..................
Things are really bursting into life, we have done the seed order..................and a bit of a spring clean. The front garden is putting on its best spring display..................the crocuses have been wonderful this year, the municipal displays are particularly spectacular with Princes St Gardens absolutely carpeted in beautiful purple and gold................
No sign of the small irises at the back which are usually among the first spring bulbs to flower, but the ones at the front were fantastic. Pink chionodoxa out first, beating the blue ones by a few days...........clemati front and back beginning to put on leaf, roses too...........the chervil has self-seeded in its container and been growing for weeks. ginger mint looking a bit sad but probably not dead after all...............
Plenty of ransoms should we choose to try and eat them this year, let's be brave.........the nippy salad mix has hung on grimly through the winter, it's a bit tough but certainly still alive, and the pigeons have not managed to completely ravage the purple sprouting broccoli so there might even be some left for us to eat...............
Bird-table been going like a fair. Beautiful pair of bullfinches, a pair of bramblings, flocks of greenfinches and siskins, much blackbird aggro, a goldfinch, and a blackcap who thinks that the seed table is his property and gets nasty with any other bird attempting to lay a claw on it.........
Whether it's the full moon, or the spring, the pond has been full of the thrashing and splashing of a frog orgy...................they have laid LOADS of frogspawn and have been singing and shagging and fighting all week.....................
