A busy week in the garden blooming and compost making.

I love dandelions they have such bright faces to welcome us into spring. 

These lovely bleeding hearts are coming into bloom in the courtyard. They are such a wierd shape. 

 

Just as I was taking this shot a huge bee landed on the lower flowers. Can you spy him?

As the garden centres are shut I've decided to make my own compost this year so I've been round collecting from all my bins. This is from the wormery below and is very wet and gloopy but full of nutrients.

This is one of my lovely Acers which is coming into leaf.

This is another with such different colour leaves. I love them both.

This is the woodland area of my garden. Soon it will be bursting with bluebells and foxgloves. 

To finish this week's diary I've included some more flowers blooming this week.

I love Spring in my garden

It's been an early spring this year and my garden is full of flowers and new growth.  It's my favourite time of year.  Here's my garden as I walked round it today.

Tansy

Aqualegia

A wonderful fern

Beautiful welcome to my greenhouse

Geraniums growing on from micro plugs soon to fill the garden

Oregano grown from seed and geranium cuttings.  It smells wonderful.

Tomatoes nearly ready to plant into final position

Apple blossom

My favourite woodland area

A hidden jewel

Wool discarded from my spinning given to the birds for nest making

Honesty forming its wonderful head pods.

Wisteria beginning to flower.  These flowers can reach 1meter!

Aqualegia

Close up Aqualegia

It's been a great day.  I mowed the lawn and edged it and enjoyed lunch in it too.  Work and play, but at all times enjoyment. Thats what gardens are for.

Early Autumn jewels

As the season turns surprisingly slowly to autumn this year my garden is loosing it's overall beauty but with just a little observation many wonderful sights can still be seen.  There is nothing better than pottering about finding delights at every turn.

My backdoor foot scraper hiding in the mind your own business.

Courtyard colour

This twinkles with the suns rays as they catch it in the afternoon

The bees are still busy

The sedum is doing extremely well this year

Garlic chives gone mad with an autumn fling!

Bay tree buds

Allium seed pod.  I really don't remember planting this but it reaches 6ft every year!

Autumn crocuses amongst the pansies

Can't remember the name of this plant but it's beautiful all the same.

White Autumn crocus

Callicarpa close up.  They are hairy berries - very wierd.

Callicarpa in all its glory.  Such a treat in the early autumn.

More white autumn crocus

Wonderfully striking Lobelia

The leeks I left from last winter. I will soon have loads of seeds for next year and pretty heads for the frost to fall on.

Autumn raspberries for my tea.

A newly cleared patch clawed back from the ivy filled with bulbs for year round interest.

The prize of my garden at the moment a waterlily autumn crocus.