While spring-time fills my heart with joy
Plant pollen makes my red eyes itch
And constant sneezing does annoy
Hay-fever is a total bitch
Good anti-histamines employ
Reduce my allergies enough
To let me breathe, however rough
While scented flowers fill the air
I fill my lungs without a care
And wheeze until it makes me cough…
Tag: spring
Home Grown Hyacinths: Update
The hyacinth bulbs I planted at the beginning of the year, kept in the cold and dark of the garden shed for 10 weeks, then sat on the conservatory window sill watching the green shoots coming through are finally flowering – and what a beautiful deep purple colour they are so far! 🙂
Garden Daffs
Daffodils growing in my garden for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Spring Has Definitely Sprung
Here in the UK our clocks change tonight, formally heralding the beginning of British Summer Time but in reality simply letting us all know that it’s time that Spring has well and truly sprung! 🙂
Spring Snow-Melt
The Secret Garden
It’s Sunday, and here I am with my Stream of Consciousness Saturday post, a day late and a dollar short – yesterday just kinda ran away from me! This week Linda has asked us to take the name of the last movie we watched and write a post inspired by the title – sounds fun, except I haven’t really watched many moves lately. My TV watching has been in more bite-sized chunks.
Anyway, the last movie I watched that I can think of immediately is ‘The Secret Garden’ – it was one of my favourite books as a child, and although I’m not usually keen on films of books this particular 1993 adaptation has always hit just the right note for me. I hadn’t seen it for years, but it was on over the holiday period so I indulged myself with a trip down memory lane.
So onto my interpretation of today’s prompt… My new garden is proving to be a bit of a secret garden at the moment. We only moved in last October, so very much at the end of the growing season, and have no idea what’s under the soil waiting to surprise us. I know we have roses, and a fuchsia bush, and a very old, woody lavender. There’s a largish rhododendron (I recognise it from the leaves) and a couple of fruit trees, apple and plum. But other than that, it’s a bit of a mystery.
I’ve long ago tidied up the flower beds for winter, pruned stuff back and removed dead and dried foliage, but other than that have left it all pretty much alone, dormant for the duration. And here we are into a new year, and already I can see spring bulbs coming through in the front garden – no idea what they might turn out to be, so it’s going to be fun waiting to find out! 🙂
Crank up the Colour
After such a wet and miserable start to spring this year, it’s so refreshing to finally see nature cranking up some really vibrant colours at last – much nicer than all those dull muddy greys we’ve had up until now 🙂
Weekly Photo Challenge: Awakening II
Bright yellow daffodils cheerfully signal the arrival of spring in the city as well as in the countryside 🙂
