It's just such a relief for the temperature to be back in double figures and this week the garden's had a thorough drenching - the first rain in several weeks so very welcome.
The hard winter may have been detrimental to we poor humans but it looks like it's done the garden some good. My hellebores have flowered better than ever before, the blooms lasting longer and several things - including pansies - seem to be thriving, perhaps benefiting from pests and diseases being killed off by the cold...?
Managed to pot up some dahlias (from Wilkinson's) in the greenhouse and give the grass another thorough raking over, removing a lot of moss before re-shaping it - mainly by giving in to the plants which have been overshadowing it and causing the moss problem. Not quite satisfied with the curves I have created but it makes a change.
Lots of things bursting in to life - mainly with a yellow theme for now - including forrsythia, mahonia, primroses, daffs and yellow epimedium. Clematis armandii is well on its way. It seems spring is finally here at last - hoorah!
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