The changing colours of spring

Gorgeous sunny spring flowers now

Have you notice the prevalence of yellow in the colour pallette of the early spring flowers? The delicious sunny flowers offered by the spring garden that brighten up our days and feed the early insects - only this morning I watched a bumble bee hunting amongst the pot plants and you know - It had yellow stripes!

Daffodils have naturalised on the lower lawns

I love to go out into the garden at this time of the year to try to snap the first flowers after the first winter days

To Read the full Garden Diary for this spring about February in the Ednovean Farm Garden

The early primroses always transport me straight back to my childhood

Spring is moving on now!

It has been only as spring has gathered momentum that the blues have started to creep in and I am just starting to spot the shy violets and the first bluebells nestling in the shelter of the cornish banks.

I spotted the first bluebell yesterday

It is such a joy each year to watch the changing colours of the season as the new cycle of life starts again in the garden. Enjoy the spring days ahead :)

I hadn't expected the French lavender to flower at the same time as the Daffodils!

To read the full earlier garden diary's for Ednovean Farm

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January Garden diary

And for some of the back story about the creation of our garden in an unpromising old farmyard you may enjoy reading

Our Garden over the years

The simple joy of watching spring develop again

There is a simple joy in watching the spring develop each year and gently clothe the spare landscape of winter in delicate new green finery.

Each year the bulbs burst from the warm earth agian like old friends renewing an acquaintance and life then goes on seamlessly on the well trodden path as effortlessly as before.

Slowly the blooms will fade away again and sink to sleep over the dry baking days of summer and they will not stir again until the next spring season comes. And each year they  arrive with a flourish in a well rehearsed dance with the sun and I greet them as old friends that I have missed but known they were so very nearby.

To read my last garden diary set in the Ednovean Farm garden click Here 

Each month I will write a little more as the season unfolds in our garden at Ednovean Farm beside the sea in Cornwall.

Today at Ednovean Farm

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It was only a simple white flower pale and ethereal - almost too delicate to survive but it brightened up my morning as I hung the washing out this morning.

Over the years I've learnt to put the spring flowers near to the house in the places I'm likely to visit the most in the course of a working day when dusk comes early.

So the little supermarket finds, the gifts from neighbours have found a home not in the outer garden where summer days tempt me to linger and wander but in the unpromising area betwixt house,stables and boundary wall. and on gloomy mornings how I treasure their appearance!

Catch up with my last Garden diary here

I've filled a selection of treasured terracotta pots with spring bulbs to put beside the front door

Daffodils - have I said that before?

The first border beside the terrace snakes away in
a ribbon of Daffodils

I've hear baby birds starting to cheep from their nests under our eaves as we enjoy what has been described as "exceptionally mild weather" which I must admit I prefer to "Exceptionally Cold" and the season is turning to Spring.

Spud has grown towards adulthood and abandoned the stuffed mice and catnip toys, leaving them rather sadly in little corners. He is now  waging a one cat war on the countryside. Our gardening neighbours are thrilledd with his  cat Armageddon conducted on the local rabbits but I must Charles and i have developed a pincer strategy to rescue the bunnies and return them to the field -  I distract or grab the cat and Charles seizes the bunny but don't tell anyone! All around us now the bird scarers boom as the farmers get ready to harvest the next crop of spring greens and cabbages and our garden is filling with Daffodils particularly the miniature ones that I have rather a fondness for. We have entered the season of Daffodils or have I said that before?!

Agaves and Daffodils side by side at Ednovean farm