".....and she thought she saw something sticking out of the black earth - some sharp little pale green points. She remembered what Ben Weatherstaff had said, and she knelt down to look at them."yes, they are tiny growing things and they might be crocuses or snowdrops or daffodils," she whispered.
She bent very close to them and sniffed the fresh of the damp earth. She liked it very much."
"I wish the spring was here now," said Mary. " I want to see all the things that grow in England."THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Oh Mary so do I!
It has been ravaged by snow and yet still those brave spring bulbs are poking out of the earth.
It is very very cold out there, Mr.Boodle and I just poked our noses out to take in the day and our breath hung in a still white cloud.
So I may have to resort to organising seed trays and plants pots
The first year we were in this house I planted a bed under the kitchen window with helebores, daffodils and grape hyacinths and the hyacinths have colonised us! They have doubled and doubled and doubled, so much so that I keep digging them up and splitting them and giving them to friends and most excitingly bringing a few indoors in teacups and old pots.
And then before long, the bulbs start in earnest.........................can't wait!
Have a lovely weekend everyone,
Sarah x
Hello darling Sarah-Jane, what a lovely post. Like you, I am impatiently waiting for spring. A few of my plants have amazed me by waking up and finally painting my garden with a little color. Soon darling soon. In the meantime enjoy your garden this weekend.
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Duchess
oh wow sarah your garden is going to be beauuutiful! i'm so envious! it will be our first spring here so looking forward to seeing what pops up if there is anything to pop up that is, but i did manage to plant the odd bulb here and there ;0) so looking forward to the sweet smell of spring! smartie isn't bothered, he's still enjoying the dusting of snow this morning hehe! han x x
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful garden & lovely words to match!! Spring looks like i has come early?? While we're sweltering in Canberra now, it will soon be freezing again with snow, how soon we forget Winter while we're Summer. Thing about Canberra in Australia is even in Winter the skies are bright blue & gorgeous, it's just 1C outside & brrrr . . . love Posie
ReplyDeleteI bought a pot of grape hyacinth this week and they are sat on my dining room table, they are one of my favourite plants. Yesterday they started to turn blue at the bottom, so excited!
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Lisa x
How very beautiful. I have snowdrops popping up all over the place in my garden, and other soon to be identified flowers doing their very best to burst through, they are tough these little gems look how they have survived the snow, frosts and cold xxx
ReplyDeleteoh my! I love your potting shed!
ReplyDeletewonderful isn't how you can go from snow to growing things popping from the ground
lovely
Goodness Sarah are these pictures of your spring garden doings? They're beautiful! It is a little too cold here today to go and tinker but I am itching to go and plant some anemone bulbs (funny, wrinkly lumpy things aren't they?) in an old enamel watering can. I KNOW how much joy they'll give me in June. Thankyou for a post that is so pleasing on the eye x
ReplyDeleteGosh that all looks so beautiful. Quite dreamy.
ReplyDeleteLove your basket of bulbs so pretty and colourful. I really hanker to be a bit more green fingered but due to the fact it would all have to be in pots and not really having a clue, beyond the usual slinging some hastily brought plants in pots around April time, so there is a bit of colour in the garden throughout summer! I am hopeless! oh dear.
Thanks though for that lovely spring like blast of fresh air!
Have a lovley weekend.
MBBx
Spring is on it's way, even in Staffordshire we are beginning to see some signs, catkins on hazels and snow drops are well and truly out now. My potted bulbs are just starting to pop their leaves through now too, so not long to wait. In the mean time we enjoyed a little more snow overnight.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderfully organised potting shed you have!
I am so completely jealous. Look at all those beautiful flowers. It is still cold, grey, and dead around here, and probably will be for several more months. What beautiful colours, and how much joy you must bring to others by giving them a piece of such beauty. Have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous post. I love the teacups. I cant wait for Spring to start. I have just had a look around the garden today for the first time since Christmas and all the bulbs are coming through so wont be long!
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Susie
I love that story...The Secret Garden!!!! Oh now you have me sooooo excited..yes Spring is on her way! Things are popping up like crazy around my yard. Happy weekend my friend. xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteHello Sarah! Still no gardening here as we were snowed again last night!
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I spent a little time in the greenhouse today, the bulbs are popping, spring is coming.
ReplyDeleteLovely post, thankyou.
Love
Lyn
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Lovely post Sarah! I start getting Spring Fever almost right after I take down the Christmas decorations. :) We have enough sunny days here that I too have seen some of my bulbs starting. (not as many or as glorious as yours) Enjoy your sunny weekend! Rebecca :) Hugs.
ReplyDeleteWow your pots look incredibly well organised anyway!It was glorious to see the sun today, your garden looks like a treasure- ENJOY!
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Cally x
there is nothing like the tenacity of bulbs is there for making you feel that winter has lost its grip!
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah Jane! You've made me all Excited! I'm really looking forward to seeing the shoots come up in my garden. (I live in Manchester after all!) Thank you for such a beautiful post. Love Amanda xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you for the quote from one of my all time favourite books :-)
ReplyDeleteI like to read it during February, it's just the right time of year of it... and we're nearly there!
Love Charlotte
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I love the Secret Garden too .... I can't wait for Spring .... but we had more snow flurries yesterday and today ... so I think it's still a little way off yet where I live. However, I've got some miniature daffodils starting to poke through, so that's exciting!
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The Secret Garden was one of my favorite stories when I was a girl. And I absolutely LOVE your picture at the top with all the daffodils. Those were my Grandmother's favorite flower.
ReplyDeleteI love the Secret Garden... such a lovely story.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until my parents get out in our garden and start planting for the Summer.
Victoria xx
what a lovely blog, such wonderful pictures
ReplyDeleteI need your gardening skills to bring our patch to life I think Sarah-Jane. I can just picture that lovely bed under your window bursting full of life. I did put lily of the valley in last year, but the chickens were pretty mean to them.
ReplyDeleteLisa x
Ooh, your post has filled me with excitement about what's to come, only sadly not in our garden! Brrrr, way too cold to investigate.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are superb - very Country Living!! x
Absolutely beautiful pictures, especially that little iron gate? not sure what it is, but I love it. Your pots are so wonderful and a true inspiration.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry about the helebores, daffodils and grape hyacinths spreading like crazy, send some to me;-)
Wow I just wrote an entry on the country side but stumbling upon your blog made me realize jsut how much I want to go back. Lovely photos and descriptions. Those bulbs look like they're growing out to be quite beautiful! Enjoy! x LZ
ReplyDeleteAm green with envy at your exquisite photos. We only have snowdrop buds at the mo. My hellibores are just hopeful green shoots and no sign of grape hyacinth or crocus yet.
ReplyDeleteHowever the one saving grace is my witchhazel. I look out every day and see an explosion of tiny golden fireworks.
Hope your marmalade was as yummy as my mummy's.
Jo x
I have a few little bulbs popping their heads through the frosty ground.Grape hyacinths and the little delicate narcissi are so pretty planted together.Your pictures are lovely!
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What a wonderful blog. Don't know how I got here but I'm following so I can always find my way back!
ReplyDeleteI really love your sweet blog - how I've been missing hyacinths! They're not due to start blooming here for a few months yet :(
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous post, Sarah!
ReplyDeleteI see so many of those lovely teapots with bulbs, do people just drill a few holes in the bottom for drainage? Is that even possible, they look so delicate?
Luisa
My darling I popped in to wish you a love filled February full of blessings.
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Duchess
I have just found your blog very much by accident and what a lovely sight I have stumbled across. I will now be staying! I am very envious of both your garden and your photography xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful blog post - I just love it :o) Lovely blog too ... I'll definitley be back to visit. Spring is just seconds away .... I saw lambs in the field on the way home today :o)
ReplyDeletei have such a fondness for grape hyacinths... they remind me of my childhood... your blog is fantastic... so happy to have found you..x pam
ReplyDeleteso do I too! i cant wait to put little tiny bunches of daffodils here and there! fliss xx
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ReplyDeleteA beautiful post! Full of hope and of fresh new things to come. Spring is a very positive season. Your garden looks just like the kind I love!
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely weekend
Take care
Isabelle x