This is a real sign of Spring! The clocks go forward tonight by an hour, that means that sunset tomorrow will be at about 7:30. I’ll be able to come home from work and potter in the garden for an hour or so.
Mind you, you still need the weather. Tonight it’s forecast to go below zero and I’ve been around the garden covering emerging Hostas with fleece and stuffing dry leaves and old fronds in to the tops of the Tree Ferns. A hard frost at this time of year can be very damaging as it will kill the new shoots and buds of plants that have been dormant through the worst of winter.
I’m hopeful that the weather will get warmer from tomorrow. Hope so! Next week we drive to southwest France setting off at 3:00 a.m. and I can do without ice on the roads.
The cold weather has meant that the garden has not moved on much this week. The ‘Festive Fence’ seems to be making a difference with noticeable less cat activity. Something has completely emptied one of the bowls of Sempervivums – chucking the rosettes and earth everywhere. I used to have a vast (well a few) collection of Sempervivums mainly in shallow pots or bowls but birds and other animals seem to delight in turfing them out in their search for some sort of tasty morsel. Today's number one suspect is a squirrel but it could have been a wilderbeast!. Anyway, I decided long ago that my Sempervivum growing days are over.
Spring Forward!
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