A mixed weather week with little frost. The great thing now is that some days we see a bit of sun. This week’s #SixOnSaturday has some further springy things beginning to appear.

First is the frogs. they took a while to come this year after the gloom of February, but now they are singing away as at least 26 of them are swimming about and spawning all over the place. Here are a few of them guarding the frogspawn.

Out on the metal arches roses are beginning to stretch up, here’s a brand new branch bud, bright in the morning light.

The borders have looked brown and bare all year, but not any more. The first clumps of grape hyacinth are coming into bloom and looking lovely against their thin green leaves.

My first daffodils of the year, these are the miniature ones that pop up in a sunny border in early spring. It really IS spring now.

Elsewhere in the borders, a carpet of little spring things has popped up. Here there is a sprinkling of Scilla with some self-seeded pink and white hellebores in the distance.

And last this week, I have managed to find enough to pop into a vase regularly, even through the winter. Now that spring is here, the display is much more pleasing. Here is this weekend’s offering, with budding branches, faithful hebe and some wonderful wallflowers.

It’s really happening now: SPRING. And we waited SO LONG this year. It is really heartening. Things will accelerate away now. Soon I’ll have a huge choice of images for my blog. It is great to feel that joyful time of year coming again.

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