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March Nature Notesby David Tidmarsh - 11:52 on 03 March 2011
Ken’s Nature notes.
Just been standing in the garden, the sun warming my back and shoulders as I survey the new growth. First to be noticed are the fresh growth of the Alliums, these produce lovely blue flowers on a flowering stem just like an onion that has gone to seed, these are from bulbs that I think we bought at one of the Yorkshire Shows a few years ago. Wonderful shows they used to be if you had the stamina to walk and walk.
This used to be a treat when I worked on Lambton Estate, a day out at Harrogate to visit the Yorkshire Show, just imagine it, the manager, Geoff Tiffin, at the time would ask, do you want a day out or just do a normal days graft, no competition! So about four of us would bundle ourselves into the works van in our best gear and away for the day, I think we even had complimentary tickets! how’s about that for a win win situation. Flower tent, beer tent and as many new tractors as a lad could only dream of driving.
Anyway back to the garden, one of our clematis is well away now with signs of the flower buds ready to burst, this is intertwined around a wire obelisk and part of an old flowering cherry. The Clematis should start flowering first and then the cherry will continue the slash of pink and purple colour giving that part of the garden some colour above ground level. These two are doing well as they claim the first rays of sunshine on a morning right through till the afternoon so they are really flourishing. Anything that can get the warmth and light are always ahead of their rivals.
The best displays at the moment in the garden are the Hellebores, I think I mentioned these before but if you ever get a space in your garden and you don’t know what to put in, then you will not be disappointed with the display and pleasure that these can give.
The Viburnum is also close to flowering, these have the added bonus of highly scented blooms, June often cuts a few blooms for indoors to add a natural scent in the kitchen, sadly like most cut flowers they never last as long as if they had been left on the shrub.
Noticeable movement in growth, apart from my waistline, are the Poplar trees growing along the cricket field boundary, shells from the opening buds are littering the paths, these are followed by the loss of their first blooms, bright crimson red. I can only imagine that the stalks are so delicate that they snap off in the wind, these early blooms will give the bees and other insects their first taste of pollen.
The Hawthorn hedge along this path, near the school is sheltered by the cricket club wall and gets the first rays of the morning sun, is also showing leaf openings.
Before long we will be blessed with colour galore when more leaves and flowers spring back into action.
Stay in the sunshine.
Ken.
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