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The garden in spring

It's a good job William Wordsworth didn't stroll into our garden seeking inspiration as he wouldn't have come upon a host of golden daffodils.

He would have found plenty of daffs, just not the traditional yellow. Mrs Wright doesn't like any flowers that are too gaudy, you see. So, our daffodils are mostly cream, Pale lemon is as close as they get to yellow. Tulips are either white, purple or a subtle combination of the two. Some rogue pink ones came up last spring, a mistake by the bulb suppliers. and she is still grumbling about it.

Wood anemones and hellebore's are white as are the multi stems of the silver birch trees. A sweep pf hydrangeas are, you guessed, white. The same goes for the Dicentra often known as bleeding hearts. The heart shaped flowers on out are pure white- mote like anaemic hearts.

The green stemmed dogwoods, various grassed. and lime green heucheras set them off a treat and green flowered tobacco plants will join them later in the summer. As the summer arrives there will be lots of colour but it will be the purple of allium and verbena and the gentle blue of cornflowers. No reds, yellows or pinks, unless the bulb firm have got it wrong again.

Not that I'm complaining as I sit with a cup of tea in the sunshine. It looks like a painting along with the red kites that provide an aerial display from their new nest just down the road, it is enough to distract me from working on he veg beds.

Hows your garden looking now spring is fully underway? What's your favourite thing to do in Spring? 

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