More Light Than Dark

More light than dark.  The change happened really quickly didn’t it?  My weed has regenerated itself and is forming a lovely scented carpet over the corner of garden about halfway up the backyard.  F was mowing the lawn (such as it is – most of it is moss and hawkweed these days) so I checked out the Tigger weed. 

Very nice to roll in.

After a while I became aware that the lawn mower had stopped making vibrations and sat up to discover F sneaking up the lawn, phone camera in hand clearly intent on filming disrupting my reverie.

Foiled you!

The garden is slowly coming to life  - Magnolia Stellata beginning to flower 

F didn't see the Bee until she was putting the photo here

Some daffodils are out (daffodils are everywhere in Hampshire this week)

Flowering blackthorn (there might be sloes for their gin in the Autumn)

Flowering Mahonia.   This too has 'berries' - also known as Oregon Grapes.  F tried making jam out of them one year but wasn't exceedingly impressed with anything about it except the colour (which was very intense - almost black).

And blossom is forming on the fruit trees.  It is unfortunate that both our plum and damson trees have ‘reverted’ to their rootstock (the tenants here while we were away wouldn’t have known to prune away the growth from below the graft and the result is the stock has dominated and the grafted material has not thrived), so after they have displayed their blossom F is going to chop them out.  Never fear we still have crab apples and quince, and the blackberry and loganberry vines have survived.