It's here! Spring, clocks tick forward an hour, longer days, shorter nights, more time to garden. It is a time of light and shade. Love it.I have to say, the garden has weathered the Winter well. Lost some lavender which we have replaced, lost even more Tulips which the mice have dug up and made off with to store them we know not where. But overall, looking good.
We have hired a new assistant head gardener, our new puppy going by the name of Sidney. He is the fifth Shar Pei to come and share our lives. No concept as yet of what is a path and what is a border but he is just 13 weeks and has much to learn. But this will be his space as much as ours and there is an exciting new world to explore.
Today has been productive. Out early to jet hose the Orchard Room's cedar shingle roof. Messy job with spray everywhere but the result is that this oak framed structure in our small orchard is looking fresh and new. Job done. Vanessa has been putting blood, fish and bone down in borders that are beginning to swell. The level of growth from this point forward will be dramatic and borders will change almost by the hour. Buds are opening, leaves appearing, be it that they are tiny.
To me, this is when the year starts its procession into a world of beauty and a landscape that stretches out into a productive Summer.
