Promise!

 

      I looked at the old wheelbarrow just a week ago...it promised much!

               And here we are, a week on...and the Tulips have made an appearance...

     But the real stars of the show, this winter/early spring, have been,

     without a doubt....the Hellebores....

    I did ‘splash out’ and I added two new ones to my small collection..

    One was ‘Sally’s Shell’, above.

   

     It had to be done with a name like that!

      The area where these are ‘hanging out’ has so much promise.

      It’s part shade, part sun and has a woodland appeal.

      I’m gradually adding whatever I think best fits.

      Meanwhile, there is so much promise around the garden...little signs 

      of what’s to come...

In a country churchyard....

Wandering through the churchyard, earlier today

I wanted to take a closer look at the long wall

that runs across part of this lovely place.

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          Yet, something else caught my eye. 

          We walk through the church yard almost every day but we had missed a 

          couple of days, having taken a different route. And so this lovely 

          Japonica took my by surprise. It has only just bloomed...and boy is it bright!

           Back to the wall. 

           I have to say that I am fascinated by walls like this!

           So much goes on! The plants busy themselves; the insects go about

           their lives with little interference and everything works side by side,

           harmoniously.

           

      I looked more closely...

    And then made my way out of the churchyard.

    As I did so, I glanced back at the vivid, splash of red. Stunning!

Sunday Snippets...

           Snippet 1....My dad’s old wheelbarrow

 

Snippet 2....a mossy pot and a mosaic which aptly sums up our garden right now...

Snippet 3...this lovely wall in the churchyard

And finally...

Snippet 4...the final page in, ‘What to look for in Winter’, 

 

which I thought apt for the final day of February!

Here in South Devon we’ve had a glorious few days; blue skies, the appearance of 

many spring flowers and so much bird song! 

So much to treasure!