Most of the bushes are waking up, blossom is coming out on the small trees and the birch trees are beginning to get a greenery about them which will make them all but opaque shortly. The beech hedge surrounding the rose garden is losing its winter long last year's leaves and the new ones are budding. Roses that were cut back the other week are beginning to grow again and we have a small number of bedding plant flowers of different types flowering now, especially those getting the sun. The lawns have had their second cut and this weekend will get their annual feed and weed treatment.

Daffodils are wilting at the end of their brief spurt and the crocuses are all but gone, (as are the snowdrops.) On the produce side of things, the rhubarb is growing rather rapidly and I check each day from now for the tell tail sign of the brief but plentiful crop of asparagus poking heads out. (Have to pick each and every day most of May...)

Yeah, going to be giving the BBQ its spring clean, putting the retractable sun shade up on the pergola and oiling the garden furniture this weekend ready for hopefully a decent summer.