Are things starting to grow?

A sunny, wet day produces yet another rainbow, since moving to Wales we see so many rainbows now, especially in this valley. The garden still seems to be in dormant state.

Still not much happening in the garden, the euphorbias are starting to open their buds, but thats about all.

This is Euphorbia wulfenii a lovely bright acid yellow/green, it really brightens the garden up, I must try and cut back the euphorbias this year, they just look so lovely all year that I don't like to spoil them.

The woods at the back of the back garden, bluebells and primroses are starting to inhabit this area, after the last strong winds a lot of trees were uprooted so we intend to get in their and tidy up a bit, I'd like to make a short woodland walk.

On with spring.

The new orang Utan enclosure! Well I don't think we will be escaping for a while, from the road side the fence only looks about 6' high, but from the garden its probably 10' high by the river. We ended up altering it after the snow as it looked all askew, mainly because there are so many horizons available, with the wall, both roads, pavement, and soil levels. I've planted a few more climbing/rambling roses along the wall to eventually grow up, and I already had some clematis, honeysuckle and Rosa Blairi No 2 (absolutely stunning) growing along so have tied them into the stockwire.

This is an anemone flowered hellebore slightly picotee my favorite type this year.

Another hellebore this time a picotee from Ashwood nurseries from my earlier visit.

One of the Iris reticulata "Pauline" I must admit I bought this from a garden centre in flower, I realize its cheating a bit, but it is nice to see the colour before I plant it.

Another view of the new fence, the road is almost hidden, well it will be when the plants are growing along it. Whilst we realize in the winter it will still look bare, in the summer it will be smothered and hopefully then will blot out the road, the only downside of living here.

The new arbour fitting in nicely, whilst again these will be bare in the winter in the summer they hopefully will be covered with plants and flowers. The curly willow is just starting to come into leaf, I had hoped to get some of it transplanted to the river to act a wind break, so will have to try and find a few minutes.