The First of……2024

[Nicos]

Mine are up today too JJ !
Plus more primulas - all change in just 24 hrs with a bit of warmth!

[Jungle Jane]

Viburnum x bodnantense Charles Lamont flowers are opening fully,been buds for a few weeks,it’s nice having some pink out there in the winter -

[Nicos]

My honeysuckle shrub is opening into flower. And it smells amazing.

The first crocus is now out and some of the daffs are about to burst into flower any day now.

The back lawn looks like it could do with its first haircut of the year but it’s too wet to do anything about that at the moment.

[rary]

I have made a small plot in the field behind me using branches to form the boundary, today I was in the plot when I noticed a wren hopping through the branches, the first I have seen this year, and while out there was a squad of long tailed tits making their way down the hedge row ,so I headed into the conservatory where I could watch them, they seem to be quite skittish whenever there are people about, they descended onto the feeders and as they move very fast it was impossible to get an exact number, but think there were fifteen or sixteen of them,lovely wee birds to watch, there's usually a number of tits at the feeder, mostly blue tits unfortunately there have been very few great tits about this year

[Containergardener]

I think I have all the great and coal tits here.

[Jungle Jane]

I saw a pair of robins in the bird area so I was putting more mealworms out there & there was a big bee,then I thought in my head what pollen have you got,what flowers are out here,then it went past a green border,flew by my lavender that’s not flowering & took me to my flowering currant that has new flowers all over it,did the bee telepathically understand me & showed me the flowers

[Nicos]

Loads of daffs out on my return from hols.
I need to explore what else has been going on in my absence. I would have checked today but it’s been pouring down!

[Bren In Pots]

My two miniature daffs have appeared again this year not sure where they came from because I've not planted them.

[Plot70]

My Japanese quince is flowering now.
It has got my first red flowers.

[Containergardener]

What a lovely flower.

[Bren In Pots]

I do like that, very pretty.

[Plot70]

They can be grown from cuttings of non flowering wood or seed.
The fruit is like baby cooking apples.

[Containergardener]

Might look for one of those . I see you are on clay too.

[Florence Fennel]

My two miniature daffs have appeared again this year not sure where they came from because I've not planted them.

I've got one in amongst the snowdrops Bren and I haven't planted any either

[Bren In Pots]

We acquired some primulas the same way Flo they just appeared a couple of years ago.
Don’t you just love free plants.