The Secret Garden, March

[puddleshark]

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.










Almond blossom.






Cherry Plum.








Red Admiral.


Peacock.


Honeyberry (Lonicera caerulea 'Aurora').

The door to the greenhouse was open, so I wandered in, to enjoy the warmth and the scent of the citrus trees.


The Pelargoniums enjoying the sunshine, but it will be a while before they can be moved out of the greenhouse.

Comments

[heleninwales]

What lovely signs of spring! Things are turning more springlike here at last, but no butterflies yet.

[runpunkrun]

Lovely!