March 2023 – and it’s hello again from me.

Published on by Catherine

If you follow the meteorological calendar, then it’s springtime right now and you can say farewell to winter. If you follow the astronomical calendar, then spring starts on the 20th of March this year. Either way, it’s close enough to inject us with all the hope and excitement that fresh life in the garden brings. Perennials will be popping up from the cold soil and trees and shrubs will be starting to bud. Late winter bulbs are blooming, and early spring bulbs are pushing through the soil with great determination.

It’s also now time for me to get this blog back up and running. I thought I’d be away for a number of months, but one accident was followed by another, then another. I won’t bore you with the details. Time had unexpectedly moved on and I hadn’t.

I’m looking out my window as I type, and the garden is starting to morph from a barren wasteland to one with spreading greenery (mostly, I have to say, due to the forget-me-nots that seem to adore this heavy clay soil) and little pops of colour from snowdrops, crocus and hellebore. Narcissi are in bud, and a few have opened, adding some welcome rays of sunshine to my view.

There are so many fabulous plant combinations in today’s plant-rich world, some of which would take your breath away, but at this point in time, mine is the tulip and the lovely little forget-me-not combination. The images are from previous springs.

Tulip Purple Elegance and Forget-me-nots For me, it’s Springtime

In Spring my garden is a feast of forget-me-nots. Some would say they’re too much, they’re untidy, it’s too much blue – or simply, that they don’t like them. To me they’re unobtrusive, they add colour when it’s needed and when they’ve served their purpose they can simply be pulled out. The seeds fall on the borders and next year’s plants will start to develop before summer is completely over. I adore them.

This is a similar combination, in a different part of the garden, and a year apart.
Yellow and blue together. What’s not to like.

There will be more posts coming about this little garden, which is undergoing some changes – changes to the hard landscaping and to the planting, plus some information about the way we plant the tulips and dahlias. I hope to see you soon – I’m glad to be back.

10 thoughts on “March 2023 – and it’s hello again from me.”

  2. Oh, I remember your beautiful tulips. Those yellow ones are fabulous. And my garden is overrun with the FMNs. But like you say they are easy to pull out once you’ve had enough of them! Welcome back to blogging Catherine.

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    1. Thank you Jude. 🙂 I tried to comment on your blog over the weekend, but couldn’t get the comment accepted. I’m having problems with my WordPress site at the moment, and I think it’s a login issue somewhere. I’m struggling to get into my own site myself and having to use a workaround. More of a nuisance than anything else, but I’ll get it fixed (hopefully) at some point.

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      1. That’s odd, but not unknown. I think someone figured out that a pop up box appears to log in, but is hidden on certain browsers. Are you using a computer or an iPad?

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        1. I’m on my computer. I tried again, a few mins ago on your still life post this time, but it still wouldn’t post. Had no problems with Graeme’s site, and other people are clearly having no problems commenting on yours. I’ll try it on my iPad and see if that works. I can also only reply to comments from my dashboard Something odd going on. 😦

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  3. Oh it is good to see a post from you again Catherine 😀 I used to have a carpet of forget- me -nots in the front garden but sadly they eventually faded away. I will have to try to replace them as they were so colourful and easy going. ‘Purple Elegance’ is a most apt name for that beautiful tulip. Looking forward to hearing about your new plantings and landscape changes.

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  4. It is lovely to come here and see the forget-me-nots, as I just planted seeds for them this afternoon, in the greenhouse. I used to have them in my old garden, where there was more irrigation. I don’t know if I’ll be able to find a place they like in the new landscape, but for some reason I had seeds on hand, so I’ll try. Because I love them.

    Your garden photos are very nice!

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    1. I hope your seeds turn into beautiful little flowers, Gretchen, that will live in your garden for as long as you want them there. Do let me know how they grow! Thank you for dropping by, and for your comment. 🙂

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