The Secret Garden, March

The Secret Garden has re-opened after the winter, and I paid my first visit of the year. Outside the garden, a typical March day: hazy sunshine not making much of an impression against the cold east wind. Within the walls, the sunshine was winning, and bumblebees were visiting the Almond and Cherry Plum blossom, and the blue Rosemary flowers. Ragged-winged Red Admiral and Peacock butterflies were newly out of hibernation.

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