I Think It Is Spring!

The clocks spring forward next Saturday and I’m really looking forward to the lighter evenings, I’ll be able to come home from work and spend an hour in the garden. I always feel very unfit by this time of year due to lack of exercise, I do try to walk to the pub as often as possible, even on the coldest nights, as I think that is a very healthy thing to do!

It has been a sunny weekend with temperatures up to 12 degrees but frosty overnight. There is still that background chill brought about by the cold north-east breeze off the sea. That cold breeze has dogged us for weeks now, as it often does at this time of year.

This weekend I’ve continued to tidy up the garden, clearing the dead stems of perennials and grasses. I prefer not to tidy the garden until Spring as I believe the dead stems etc. help give roots and buds some protection against the cold.

It’s good to see the Hosta’s starting to come through. The next 2 photographs show these new shoots, the first is Hosta ‘Sum & Substance’, the second is Hosta ‘ Forgotten Its Name’:

 

 

Gave the lawns their first cut of the year this weekend. The grass was very wet and the ground quite boggy in places, the rear lawn has a lot of moss in it which makes it difficult to get the mower through. I might try using some moss killer this year? Thing is, I think parts of the ‘lawn’ are pure moss so I could be left with just mud. The photo below, taken through the black canes of Phyllostachys nigra (Black Bamboo) show the newly mown lawn – notice the stripes!!

 

I took a couple more photos of the Black Bamboo and thought I would include them in this post. That’s all for now!