We have been busy most of the day outside. The sun has been shining and it was just lovely to be able to get out and do some the little jobs that have been on the back boiler for a while.

I have planted out lots of the perennial geraniums that were grown by my late father-in-law, it gives me so much pleasure to have them in our garden, it brings him close and I’m sure he would be pleased to see them too.  He, of course would have known all their names and the Latin too, where as I,  I’m afraid to say only know them as perenial geraniums.  There were also other things that the geraniums had growing with them, like violets (the scented one) these too went out and fingers crossed will survive and flourish.

The garden furniture, now probably in its fifteenth year, had its yearly scrub, and some of the potatoes have been planted.  Hooray!

The carrots are showing signs of growth, and all the seeds in the house are growing rapidly.  Such a wonderful time of year, new beginnings and all that.  The pear trees are now all in bud, but no bullfinches spotted, we haven’t seen them for a few years now and always hope that they will appear again.

The daffodils are out and the tulips are not so  far behind them, I put in a few new tulips this year and can’t wait to see how they will look.

The shrubs are all starting to bud also and the mahonia is almost out in flower, it has a lovely scent.