Put a spring in your step

Put a spring in your step!

How delightful to look out of the window at the spring garden.
 

spring border with hellebores

The apparent trick of the light in the early morning sunshine is no sleight of hand and one’s spirits soar at the promise of the garden magic yet to come.

euphorbia purpurea

Miraculously, almost overnight, the euphorbia purpurea has begun to unfurl, in contrast to the more common wood spurge which has been a glorious presence for some weeks. 

  

 Even so, the morning sunshine transforms its bracts into lime 

green sparklers. This is nature’s firework display, unsurpassed by any man-made New Year spectacular.

daphne odorata just beginning to show colour

Socrates, my chain-saw owl, stands guard at the entrance to the garden, keeping watch over a colourful spring basket.

Socrates - the wise old owl

                        

'A wise old owl sat on an oak,

The more he heard the less he spoke.

The less he spoke the more he heard

I would that we could be like that wise old bird!’

Thought for the day

Gillian