Garden photo diary

Feb 14th (St Valentine's Day!) and crocus, daffodils, marigolds, stocks and roses continue to co-exist in my garden!

Mixed up seasons

In my garden as 2011 drew to a close the plants seemed to have no idea that it is winter! All these photos were taken on the morning of 31st December.

This crocus will open as soon as the sun shines!

Marigolds still provide plenty of colour

These daffodils, which started pushing their way out of the soil back in November look way ahead of where they should be.

Another rose is happily flowering

Close to more daffodils

and a rose is still full of buds.

and not far away last summer's stocks are still blooming!

A colourful primrose

The next batch of photographs were taken on 18th January. They show how the daffodils have progressed and that I still have roses in bloom and in bud (when they should be being pruned!). My daffs are not as far forward as those I saw just a few miles from here on my Sunday morning bike ride (15th Jnauary). One surprise yeterday was the discovery of greenfly in the roses. Another, today, was a man cutting his grass. And in today's local paper a story of a blackbird nesting and laying eggs in a Christmas tree!

Ugh! Greenfly - in January!!