Spring was bursting out all over in the garden today. My grandson and I did one of our 'nature trail' walks around the garden looking for all the bulbs we had planted in the Autumn. I am pleased to say that they all seem to be coming up. There are crocus shoots everywhere and also some Tulips that I had forgotten about! There are lots of snowdrops now too. I have some extra ones which The Hairy One dug up from a corner of the wood where no one goes shhhhh.
There are also tiny leaves on my Elder tree, I was most excited to see them! It's not much of an Elder tree, actually it's a bit small and sad. I'd love it to grow nice and bushy so I could harvest elder flowers for cordial and later berries for wine. I am hoping to make some wine this year. I've never done it before so lord knows what will happen. My Dad used to do it and I always remember lying on the sofa with appendicitis and the doctor coming (they used to do that in those days) and all Dad's wine bubbling away behind the sofa and letting of a pong like a brewery. I don't know what Mum was more worried about, my health or what the Doctor must have thought! Anyway I want to have a go so will be on the lookout for some of those demijohn things at the boot sale. Probably because I want some there won't be any!
I also have great drifts of Daffs coming up on the bank with the Sycamores, they even have some flower buds just beginning. It's a shame but Hairy Hubby is planning to chop the trees down and dig up the bank to build yet another shed. A double garage, summerhouse and lawnmower shed is just not enough storage space for all his crap important items. I suppose that come next September/October I will be spending hours replanting the bulbs somewhere else that I will have to dig them up again from to make way for one of his projects. I am sure that in five years time my garden will look like a housing estate with buildings everywhere!
My grandson and I also had a good look at my herbs and were thrilled to spot the first signs of growth on the mint. We had a fantastic supply of mint for our locally grown new potatoes last year so seeing that really cheered me up. The other herbs seem to have survived, even my Parsley which I was sure would go to the frost. My plan for this year are lots of tubs of herbs. I certainly need a new Rosemary, I totally butchered my old faithful one last year and it needs a rest!
We also had some drama today with my old adversary Butterfly the Squirrel. He had found his way into the Doves enclosure again and got trapped in there....again! The trick really is to watch how he eventually gets himself out because that's where he got in. Then you have to block his entry route. This time the little rat-bag had chewed a hole in the net. I can tell you I am not amused! Well, actually it was amusing watching his antics trying to get out of the net, he was hurling himself about and doing somersaults trying to remember how he got in there. He is going to be a problem along with the Pheasants when the net is off because he will eat the Doves food and cost me a fortune. I always loved Squirrels before I moved here but this one (yes I know it's not just one, far from it) is doing my head in.
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