Floral Dance

My post this week is going to be mainly flower themed, just because I have been so overwhelmed by the sudden burst of colour everywhere! Our garden is really coming to life now and, after a lawn cut and some new bedding plants, it looks just lovely (if you ignore the patches where we need to re-turf!).

Here are a few of my favourite flowers from the garden:







The greenhouse is also full of seedlings waiting to become vegetables (you can see courgette, peas, cabbages, lettuce, sweet peas, leeks and celery in this photo):



And one of our apple trees, Gavin (that's the actual name of the variety and the reason I chose it. Brilliant!), has some blossom:



The blueberries are also looking really promising, with masses of flowers about to burst open, fingers crossed they will all become berries!



On the allotment, our peas and broad beans are doing really well and the fruit cage (sans cage at the moment, but it will have by the time the fruit appears) is bursting with life - the blackcurrant that we've had for a few years so is well established has tonnes of buds. Our work on the allotment this weekend has been mainly maintenance but we have fashioned this rather lovely greenhouse to protect the peas from our unpredictable weather/dust!



We also had a little trip out today, just down the road to Broadview Gardens at Hadlow Agricultural College (like Sparsholt for the Hampshire readers!). The early and late Spring bulbs have all come out together because of the hard winter so there was a riot of colour to behold: