March 25th and Spring Flowers

Here's another cheerful post to avoid the new C word!

Today is Lady Day, the Christian festival celebrating the Annunciation of Mary and the Immaculate Conception and  today is also my sister's birthday.....Happy Birthday L.
 Lady Day was the day when servants and farm workers made an agreement with their employers that they wouldn't change their jobs in the next year.

 I found just one piece of weather lore

An East wind on Lady Day

Will keep on 'til the end of May 

 The primroses are still going strong all the way down my meadow, they've spread really well since we stopped cutting all the grass. In the first year here I bought some pots of cowslips but only one seems to have survived although I have got a couple of clumps of  what we always called Five Fingers but are really Oxslips.

Primroses

Oxlip

Cowslip

Also growing are are few small clumps of Wild Garlic or Ramsons. These were also planted in our first year when BiL brought a bucket full dug from the woodland where he hauls out fallen trees.

Wild garlic/Ramsons

 They've taken a long time to establish because it's probably a bit too dry for them here but when I cut some to add a bit of flavour to an omelette on Monday I spotted some tiny leaves away from the main bits - so hopefully they will spread now they've got going.

2 Egg omelette, with chopped ramson leaves on a slice of home made bread - delicious

To celebrate the spring sunshine over the last few days, here's  another Flower Fairy Illustration from Cicely Mary Barker.

Enjoy the sun again - if you have it today  - we might get snow on Saturday Brrrr.

 Back Tomorrow
Sue

Green Shoots...............

..............of Wild Garlic.

I'm very excited that the roots of wild garlic that Col's brother brought over last year have survived and small green shoots are starting to appear.
It's not common in Suffolk so when Andrew moaned about the smell of garlic in the wood (which he and a mate rent to haul out dead wood to sell) I asked him to dig up a few roots for me........ he brought a big bucket full.
There was no guarantee it would grow here, we are dryer than the wood it came from, but they are coming up everywhere we put them, it's certainly wet enough  this year so far.

Other things are appearing down at the end of the meadow..............primroses...............

.............and the buds on a young willow that we planted in the Autumn.

And Colin is well enough to climb a ladder

So the Green Man has been fixed to keep an eye on the new trees

All is well in the new wood.

( No Gnomes!)

Thank you BTW for all gnome comments,the funny, the like them/hate them and everyone else.

I actually don't mind old concrete gnomes, it's the plastic-lurid-imported-from-China-ness of these that I don't like but if someone wants to help Asda make more millions then that's up to them.


Have a good weekend, stay warm in the snow and strong winds that are forecast.
Back Monday
Sue