These are a few of the photographs which I took in my garden today and yesterday. I’m still not used to our new camera as you can see from this blurred photo.
These are looking a bit battered about the edges now but they’re still nice and colourful, if you don’t look too closely.
The double flowers somehow look to delicate for this time of the year but they are really hardy.
Not quite a host of golden daffodils but they do smell lovely, unlike the ones that you get in shops which don’t seem to have any scent at all.
I took photographs of hellebores, pulmonaria and euphorbia too, but I’ll do a post about them in a few days. It’s all happening in the garden now!
Your flowers are lovely, just what one needs at this time of year. My crocuses came up and are blooming except that it’s been cold and they refuse to unfurl! It’s 34F this morning, too cold for this time of year!
Joan,
The yellow tulips which I grew in a bowl indoors came up all right but I expected them to be cream and before I could take a photo of them they gave up and opened as far as possible in a very messy way.They looked reasonable for one day. Even cut tulips would have lasted longer. The wine coloured ones are very small and weedy looking. Our temperature has been over 50F for the past few days now, very pleasant, but it’ll be colder at the weekend. I hope it warms up for you soon!
Daffodils are my favourite and you are right the shop bought ones tend not to smell very often.
Jo,
It’s strange that shop bought ones don’t have a smell. My garden daffodils are just cheap bulbs from B&Q but even if you cut them they still smell lovely in the house. The commercial ones must have it bred out of them, as roses do.
Beautiful flowers! And such welcome color after the winter y’all suffered.
Pearl,
Thanks. It has been a horrible long winter. On the other hand we haven’t had to put up with earthquakes! I read that you had had a bit of a shake in Hawaii.
Ooh, lovely. Any signs of spring in my part of the world were killed by the foot of snow that landed last Wednesday. I’m pining for the East!
Niranjana,
It was another lovely day today but we were hacking back an enormous laurel tree which was far too big for our wee garden. I still think we might get snow at some point, especially as the schools break up for the spring holidays on Friday. I hope your snow clears away soon, it’s sickening when it damages the new growth. I was in the East last night, well Dundee actually but we had a lovely hot Indian meal there!