It's been colder on some days than January but often mild too.
Here is morning water on Hypericum (Rose of Sharon), Mahonia Japonica, and the first daffodils to show - on the sunny, East-facing side of the garden - all taken in the last week of February:
Crocuses continued to flower, especially in the lovely moments of bright sunshine. But I only have a handful and really you need a carpet of hundreds to impress, as they're very small! Unless, of course, you do clever close-up pictures:
Some primroses and primulas have started showing, ladybirds have been about, a couple of the Dwarf Irises (Katharine Hodgkin) I planted in tubs have flowered, and there's been loads of lovely, curly pale green foliage from the Anemone Coronaria bulbs also in pots:
But the best thing of all is that three or four years after I started the world's smallest pond, which has always attracted a couple of visiting frogs and newts, we have got our very own frogspawn! Woo-hoo!
