I can’t believe that it is so long since I last did a post for SOS. I knew that during last year I was getting more and more tired and had hardly any energy at all so the garden was suffering and didn’t look as it should, in spite of the gardener coming to work here each week.
Chionodoxa Pink Giant on the alpine scree.
After many visits to the medical centre and many blood tests later I was told that I was bleeding internally (no wonder I was so tired) and so began the start of many visits to the main hospital nearby., my feet barely touched the ground.
Scilla sibirica also on the scree.
All these visits led to a couple of endoscopies, a colonoscopy, a couple of CT scans and some X rays. At the end of November a cancerous growth was removed by another colonoscopy but it was felt that maybe all of it hadn’t been removed. Eventually it was decided to do another operation in mid February using micro surgery this time.
Corydalis Brth Evans in the woodland.
Corydalis George Baker.
My daughter was so good, she did a video of my snowdrops in the woodland on her phone, so that I could see them all, it was definitely Winter when I went into hospital but Spring when I came home a couple of weeks ago. I still have a couple of snowdrops still flowering in the woodland, soon be over though.
Its now the turn of Fritillaria meleagris, they seem to be early this year.
There will soon be loads more to photograph.
The surgery was a complete success, all signs of cancer have gone, I just now have to get my strength back once more and I’m feeling stronger each day. Hopefully I’ll be back to gardening fairly soon.
There are loads of Narcissus flowering at the moment, I think these are N. Minnow.
Of course the first thing I wanted to do when I got back home was to go into the garden to see everything that is flowering now. I did go eventually, but I needed someone on one side of me and used a stick on the other side.
Salix Mount Asso looking very pretty.
I made it round the woodland though while Narcissus pseudonarcissus was in flower, I have been another couple of times and now the snakeshead fritillaries are out and looking rather wonderful.
Narcissus pseudonarcissus are almost over now but plenty more varieties still to come.
I feel stronger each day and hope that soon I can manage without the stick when walking in the garden. I had a walk with my daughter the other day and didn’t need to hold onto her, another improvement! I have nothing but praise for the NHS, they have all been absolutely wonderful, both the surgical ream and the nurses who all looked after me so well.
There we have my six for this week, it took me a lot longer to do it this week, I had forgotten how to do some things, it has been so long since my last post! Please pop over to Jim at Garden Ruminations to see more spring flowers.
