Since I went away, more tulips have come into bud, the pear tree has started to blossom (that was nearly 'plossom' - I quite like that typo), the guelder roses and actual roses are busting with new leaves and the clematis on the garage is hanging with fat nuggets waiting to open. More fool the ones that do because I was reading a flower arranging book the other day which said that clematis make surprisingly good cut flowers. Any flowers that were open this morning have been snipped and put into my latest bunch.
The greenhouse has had yet another reshuffle as more things that have germinated in indoor warmth are booted out to toughen up. I just hope this -4 degrees which I heard rumoured in a recent weather forecast for the Midlands just doesn't materialise. That's the only problem with early spring seed-sowing enthusiasm and an unheated greenhouse. Still, the seedlings and plantlets in there at present are looking happy enough, if growing a little more slowly in the current shifting temperatures.
I'm getting very impatient with my most recent batch of dahlia tubers though - they are showing no eagerness to sprout nearly three weeks after being introduced to compost... I'm going to start shouting at them soon to see if that works!
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