The presents of Spring

Its the 20th of May and you’d think that we’d be able to have some decent weather wouldn’t you? Well think again. Another cold, dreary, wet, windy, dreary, depressingly unspringlike week here at downshiftme acres, throughout the entire Valley, actually. So cold and wet that I spent most of the week at the nursery under cover, so much rain in fact, that the polytunnel I was working in had a river running through it for most of the day. My gloves were soaked and my fingers cracking from the cold and wet by the end of the day. You might think that at some point I'd be hankering for my old warm dry office, but you'd be wrong, you see it may have been cold wet and windy, but everywhere was the sight and smell of new spring growth and that made for a very content me.

We have had some beautiful reminders that spring is forcing her way through though.



These Sedums have appeared all over the garden, they have a lovely crisp bright green that is, for me, so evocative of spring colours.



I have no idea what these beauties are, but I think they look great against the meadow grass and the treeline.




The hyacinths have such a distinct smell, a strangely haunting aroma that I always associate with spring.

You will have noticed by now that there is no podcast this week. Thanks to our work schedules we have both been working hard and Matt has worked all weekend.