Nearly over

[jambutty]

It will soon be white rabbits,and February is only a short month,,,, THEN IT WILL BE SPRING...and the flowers and the birds singing will cheer us up

But my crocuses are already out with the snowdrops, a petunia is showing its flowers and the boids choip in my garden, if you can call that wilderness a garden. I think that they came out in sympathy with the BA cabin crew.

The robin, who seems to think that the garden is his, goes around bullying all the other birds whilst a bemused squirrel rushes along the fence heading for next door’s bird tray to nick all the nuts. I’ve seen a bumble bee today.

So it is spring in my wasteland.

 

[jambutty]

Sadly, overnight some yobbo broke through my fence and pulled up some of the crocuses, the petunia and some snowdrops and left them lying in a heap on the flags. It wasn’t an animal of some sort because the evidence was in a heap. An animal would have spread the uprooted plants all over. I’ve put them back in place but only the petunia has a chance of recovering to flower later on. The growth in the crocuses and snowdrops will die away and with a bit of luck the bulbs will survive to come up next year. Mindless vandalism!

I should add that although my garden is more like the grasslands of Africa it is edged with breeze blocks between it and the building and the holes in the breeze blocks are filled with soil into which I planted the various bulbs and plants last autumn.

 

[grannyclaret]

Oh thats sad jambutty,,why do people do these mindless things,,,
We too have buds sprouting all over,, they are only in pots though..we dont have a garden,,but theres dafodils and loads of crocuses...i planted some snowdrops,but theres none yet... yep winter is on the run at last....