Thursday 2 May 2013

Spring is Here

Hey, happy Thursday! Or as my son puts it, Happy Slope Day. He heard me saying that Wednesday is Hump Day, and immediately christened Thursday, Slope Day. He says it's because after the hump comes the downhill slope towards the weekend... I think it's cute :-D

Anyway I've signed up for the Blog Every Day in May challenge over at http://www.rosalilium.com/, so hopefully you will be hearing a lot more from me than usual for at least the next 31 days! Of course I didn't see the challenge until the 2nd, one day after it started, so technically I already failed!! But I've decided to do it anyway - I probably won't make the entire month anyway but it'll be nice to see how many I can get through!

Today's topic is 'Spring is Here' and right on cue, our new tulips have started flowering. There have been daffodils around in the hedgerows too for a while now, though none in our garden apart from one tiny narcissus by my front door, which the cat managed to stomp on before I could get a picture.
We planted the tulip bulbs a while ago, and a load of leaves came up - but then March turned back into Winter and we had frosts and horrible cold weather galore. I was really worried that the tulips would be too frosted to flower but I needn't have been concerned! There are also some pansies in this picture which Mr Opalline planted last weekend, and near the back is one of our Mint plants, miraculously coming back to life (like a leafy Lazarus!) after a long cold winter of pretending to be dead twigs.
It's Spring in the greenhouse too! Suddenly we have tomatoes, herbs, and all sorts of other things emerging from the compost.
Radishes and peas too!

I can't wait to see what else comes up. Really hoping the vegetables do well this year, what with all my attempts to be frugal with the groceries I could really do with some free vegetables!! Last summer was so dismal that nothing really grew at all. Let's hope that the glorious sunshine we've been having recently is a sign of more to come!

8 comments:

  1. Ahhhh, this looks lovely! I can't wait to get a garden so I can watch my very own things grow like you! It must be a lovely feeling xx

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    1. It really is a lovely feeling! Especially later in the year when the plants are all much bigger and lush and green, I love to go out at dusk and water them and listen to the birds singing as the sun goes down <3

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  2. Good luck on your vegetables. Mine didn't do well last year, but hoping this year is better too (just need to get them in the ground). What a great post for Day 2's topic.

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    1. Thanks! Our veggies were terrible last year, all we really got was a few tomatoes. Fingers crossed this year is better!

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  3. I absolutely love tulips if i could get away with it I would have a garden full of them but with kiddies thats hard as they would either step on them or pull them for a surprise for mammy lol

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    1. Lol it's so hard when they pick flowers like that, you don't want to be too cross as they were trying to be nice but at the same time you're like... aaargh my poor flowers!!!

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  4. hunny make sure to add your link to twitter using the #BEDM ;)

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