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I'm not sure whats happened this year, but my daffs seem to be way behind.
Most years they are coming through before christmas, and a lot of them flower in Feb.
But this year,I keep going out and checking, they're just starting to come through, some do have flower buds on, but this seem s way later than normal.
I wonder what decides when a bulb should start to grow? Sunlight .Temperature?
The crocuses are flowering, well the yellow ones anyway,(surprisingly the birds haven't shredded these this year), but again others haven't appeared yet, or just poking tips through.
I had a 'lobsters claw?' in flower in my hanging basket right through the winter, yet it never flowered once in the summer!!...put on loads of beauriful foliage, but not a single flower...It's only dying now because I have the watering system off, and the baskets are dry.(I'm very lazy like that, I never get araound to taking my baskets down, until it's time to plant them again!!...LOL)Luckily most of them have some sort of foliage in that keeps going.
But isn't it great this time of year just walking round the garden, peering at the soil, seeing little bursts of growth of things you forgot were there. It was nice enough to sit out there yesterday, to feel the warm sun on your face, dreaming on warmer sunnier days ahead.
To think about sowing some (some!!) seeds , thinking what to put in this gap or that gap, I even pruned my Clematis down,another job I've negleted to do for yonks.Unfortunately cutting through a couple of main stems lower down, just where I didn't want to!!...oh well, a little hard pruning won't hurt.Once I pulled down the top growth from the arches, there was already fresh new growth there romping away.
The autumn raspberries too were cut down, The buds are fattening up on the honeysuckles and roses, all ready to burst forth .
I love this time of year, so much promise of things to come(hopefully not too much in the way of cold weather that they kept warning us about)
I even got hubby to empty my compost bins at the weekend, loads of fab crumbly compost to spread out (they hadn't been emptied for two years either!!)Bob flowerdew eat your heart out...
I'm terrible when it comes to doing things you're supposed to, like layering/turning/wetting compost heaps, it gets left to it's own devices,and when i can persuede someone to do it, emptied...
I'm jusy waiting for someone to volunteer to do my greenhouse out (have a huge huge fear of spiders, most of whom seem to have taken up residence in my greenhouse)
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a partner that shares my enthusiasm for gardening? Would it be a good or bad thing?As it is, i can do what I want ,where I want (not touching his lawns of course!!...)but if you had someone that also had ideas about what they wanted and where, might lead to a his and hers garden?
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