Late February Happenings

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!