Daffodils

Its spring in full glory and nature is in over drive to show us her beauty after a winter sleep and the wonder of the daffodil has not gone unnoticed.  So here is a little Daffodil porn to scroll through to bring some spring time cheer as you soak in some of that new season sunshine onto your skin.

Spring flourish

 Finally days of blue skies and sunshine, warm weather wakes sleepy bulbs to lift their heads and don hats that make the garden come alive as if a carnival is coming.

 I am very happy with the pots at the front of the house last year we made the layered pots   and im surprised the pansies are still going strong with no sighs of stopping as the tulips crocus and iris barge their way up through soil.

 We saw our first buzzy bumbler today probably very hungry after sleeping all winter

 I love these polyantha victoriana gold lace they are so pretty i will grow more next year from seed

 lovely delicate woodland cyclamen

 Mean while down in the meadow the Phesants seem to also be feeling the effects of the spring weather and are starting to stalk the ladies.

We have been hard at it rolling the mud into paths carving up the mud square into plots  

Pots for winter and spring

 We are full on bulb planting round the garden at the moment and have bought around 1000 bulbs and it is now way near enough for the garden but a good start to build on over the years, Next year i will bulk buy sacks of bulbs as it is much cheaper per bulb.  We have bought loads of varieties of bulbs but the basic types are tulips, daffodils, bluebells, snowdrops,crocus and muscari armeniacum, hoping for a good splash of colour come spring time.

We have a large front walk way and have made a start at trying to pretty it up with some pots.  We are trying to have pots that give blooms for a good 6 months through winter and spring and we have planned the layered pot approach.

Starting with the lower layer we placed tulips bulbs then soil then daffodil bulbs more soil followed by the muscari armeniacum, we topped the pot off with a selection of winter pansies and cyclamen.  Here is madam hitching a ride in the trolley as we took the pots from the potting area to the front door for display.

 My other little helper was on bed duty using the best tool i bought for planting the many bulb, my bulldog garden spear, making planting quicker.  Looking forward to Spring now and seeing all new flowers after our hard work.