Another week of freezing nights and mostly sunny days, a lot of the mornings have seen the snowdrops and hellebores collapsed to the ground, but by lunch time they are bright and perky, standing upright once more. I was getting on really well with clearing the rockery until I somehow did something to my ankle, and no, I wasn’t gardening at the time! Walking on the flat is fine, but even walking round the woodland is rather painful so I don’t think I’m up to balancing on the rockery yet for a while, my visitors next Tuesday will just have to put up with an untidy end to the rockery! In the meantime, here are my six for this week…………
No 1

My first Narcissus this year, not Rijnveld’s Early Sensation as hoped, that still doesn’t have any flower buds for me, I think I need to split them and spread them out. I think this is Narcissus johnstonii or Queen of Spain. The purple in the background is Cardamine quinquifolia.
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