Easter Monday, too windy to do much in the garden today. Yesterday we had a tour round the front garden, today is the turn of the back garden.

It's much slower waking up after winter than the front, but it is rousing slowly.

The Acer is sprouting her lovely red, fernlike leaves, but will not take her winter overcoat of bubblewrap off just yet.

My plum tree has a smattering of blossom although sadly not as much as I hoped for.

The clematis I thought had been exterminated by the workmen last summer has buds on, hopefully they will have opened up by the time my solitary bees have hatched. I have spotted a couple of brave bees around already.

 

Some of the seeds in my mini greenhouse have germinated, the salad leaves and fenugreek. Still waiting for the parsley, spinach and coriander. there's also some pak choi I bought and am waiting for the weather to improve to plant out.

Still no frogspawn in the pond. What has happened to all my frogs?

 

I love this time of the year.

My front garden is looking good this year, as I walk through the front gate it's like entering another world, a world of peace and calm. I'm feeling a connection with the front garden I haven't felt before, I have been doing a lot of work out there since the workmen finished erecting the new fence last summer trying to restore the wildlife sanctuary it used to be. It gets more sun now and has woken up before the back garden which is only just coming to life.

Here are a few photos from this morning.

 

Some of the images from the trail camera I set up in the garden yesterday afternoon. Although jackdaws have been in the road and indeed nesting in my unused chimney before the council put a cap on it , they have only been coming into the garden this last couple of weeks.