2008 Early Flowers Bees & Frogspawn!

January starts! Hellebore sheltering still between 'Bamboo & Echium Pininana!

'Garden' Starts here earlier than anyone thought, this is end of Jan 2008, frogspawn early Feb.!

End of January start of Feb. Frog Spawn! starts early & Sally Pussycat! our Rescued cat whose age we do not even know has a sun session in the Greenhouse!

Azalea starts to flower in early Feb. Hollyhocks starts Growing for this year & Buds on Bushes. Triennial Echium is 'going for it early this season. The 'Red Echium' can be seen starting low left of lower pic & the 8 DIFFERENT types of Clematis all seem budded already!.

Mid Feb & Village has loads of Daffodils, even these in the Shaded parts are opening.

Buds on the Hibiscus too.

Mid to late March Echium Pininana has started to go! & see below, the Daffs are out, Hyacinths keep smelling over the prev 3 weeks, now the Primroses clumps get split, Foxgloves get dragged from pots they've spent last yr & the winter in & several types of Clematis are already well budded on the front wall. Tadpoles all over the 3 little puddles, Toads going walkabout nightly here.

Below we can see the Echium in mid March with Climatis activity on the front wall & below that, some 'surplus Echium plants' overwhelming my poor old Vauxhall Tigra car. Leylandi!! yukh!!, but wait until they get climbed over by Clematis, my opinion changes then & besides Blackbirds & Doves have safe nests in these.

April 2008 arrives, snow as well! see snow remaining on the Echium leaves 2 below?.

Azalea & Primrose with last yrs remains of ferns, best left in place to protect.

Buds are now forming on the Echium, buds on the Clematis on front wall too.

End of April 2008, differences well noted!

April 2008 coming towards it's end, only a week to go!, pots which have sat patiently thru winter are now all stirring.
Now 3rd week in April ends & our attempt at getting an Auricula going on the inside of a Kitchen windowsill has flowered!. 'Always fancied them so we bought one a year ago at Narberth Show! & now it has emerged as 2 so we shall split them. (Always been fearful of an attempt at these but they are not as difficult as I had imagined, get a good spot & temperature do not be generous with water at all & leave the poor thing alone!!!