signs of spring

[purplevegman1]

today i noticed the blackberries are starting to sprout leaves,daffodils are out,bluebells are poking their heads out and someone i know has seen 2 butterflies this year. what signs of spring have you seen.

[cheshire61]

Dafs out weeds going made on my plot tempreture in double figures in london
but im going to make the most of it lots of work on my plot this weekend
and plenty of teabags cant do anything without a cuppa

[JennieAtkinson]

Only got snowdrops!

[pigletwillie]

My wife and daughter saw a big dopey queen wasp. They stuck a blob of marmalade under its nose which it lapped up with great relish before flying of to find a nesting place

[valmarg]

Cyclamen coum, snowdrops, crocus and anemone blanda in full flower. Forsythia buds starting to swell and show colour. Chives starting to grow.

With the bad weather last week haven't been to look at the fruit.

On the wildlife front, the birds are starting to sing the 'dawn chorus'.

It's quite noticeably lighter earlier in a morning (not staggering about in the dark, in danger of tripping over the 'death traps' I've left lying around, in order to go to the loo!).

valmarg

[Two_Sheds]

Cycled up to the Lottie today (5 mile round trip, don't need a car for that :-))
Gorse, violets, one Narcissus in flower. Cerinthe about to. Dandelion leaves appearing (guinea food). Water lily got a new leaf. LOADS of blackbirds courting/fighting.

[ugly gourd]

The birds have started singing daffs snowdrops and weeds and weeds and weeds!!!

[wellie]

Piggy,
I do hope that wasp wasn't headed for one of your birdy nesting boxes ! !

I told Trousers this story tonight and he was hugely unimpressed, so I hope you all will find a little 'aaah' in your hearts where he didn't?

I had a few bits to get from our local supermarket yesterday, and whilst I was walking round, I became aware of something crawling on the shoulder of my jacket, so I 'brushed it off', as ya do....
It wasn't till I got to the checkout and deposited my shopping on the counter that I noticed a wide-awake ladybird. Thinking on my feet, I scooped it up onto my 'loyalty card' attached to my keyring, and as it crawled onto the keyring fob I handed the whole bunch to the nice lady, saying, "Careful of him, I'm taking him home to my Greenhouse".
Well, no wonder my reputation goes before me !! She nearly wet herself laughing, and the ladybird is home safe with me now.
Happy Ending, because let's face it he'd probably been stacking shelves for the last couple of months, eh?

[mrskp]

Chives starting to grow.

I'm glad you said that valmarg. I was wondering if mine was grass coming through !

So added to the snowdrops, crocus and a bee that I spotted, I now have chives too.

[vicki lorraine]

My chives are growing too.
In town the other day i spotted a huge queen wasp resting on the ground it was huge.
Yes the green sprouts of weeds are also appearing in the ground too.
The pidgeons seem to think its spring!
Daffodils are now showing yellow and will open fully in the next warm spell.

[bramble]

Buds on my first clematis. will have to wait until morning to look at the name tag. Its one of the first, has lime green leaves and purple flowers.
Birds singing. Daffs and Crocus in bloom, also some polyanthus.
generally, everything looking more posative.

[Two_Sheds]

Blimey heck! They don't hang about - the groundsel, deadnettle, speedwell and shepherds purse are in flower!
They're not weeds, they're wildflowers. Here's a nice link:
http://www.leroysprings.com/Wildflow...ildflowers.htm

[purplevegman1]

we had a pair of nesting seagulls courting on the roof outside our bedroom window.

[Gryfon]

Our daffs and crocuses are out. The pond is full of frog and frog spawn. It's just about t-shirt weather, the weeds are now on a mass rampage and all the trees in the garden are in bud.

Oh we saw a wasp as well...didn't last long though as the last thing I need is a swarm of wasps in the garden with the children around!

[Mrs Dobby]

Crocuses are out, some local daffs are too, and the bluebells wont be far behind them! SAaw a big bumbly bee yesterday, and the frogs n toads on the plot are getting randy! Everything seems to have that 'green haze or buzz' about it, nothing you can visibly see, but more that you can sense that its waking up and the sap is rising, reday for it to burst forth in a frantic effort of growing!