As promised, here are details from our walk on 18th February 2025. Enjoy
18th February 2025
As soon as into the woods there are the newly unfurled leaves of honeysuckle. And the holly still putting out berries
18th February 2025
18th February 2025
This woods is underplanted with daffodils. We find one in bud, but generally it’s still too early for them.
18th February 2025
I content myself with taking photos of the strong spring sunlight through the bramble leaves
18th February 2025
Catkins are everywhere, both hazel and birch. But they will insist on displaying themselves either backlit or against a hectic backdrop
18th February 2025
18th February 2025
Heliotrope. When the sun is strong on them they are the sweetest smelling of the spring flowers
18th February 2025
18th February 2025
And snowdrops…
18th February 2025
18th February 2025
18th February 2025
18th February 2025
Yes, I took loads more photos of snowdrops than I’ve shown here. But the sun was so bright on them that the white fuzzed up and the photos become unusable.
That’s all for now, folks. I wonder what I’ll find for you next week?
crispina kemp 
I am reading The Secret Garden and these beautiful images are a perfect accompaniment!
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Ah yes, I loved that book. I’ve always wanted a walled garden so I could turn it into a secret garden. No such luck
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It is so wonderful! I feel it might be a yearly (or at least another) reread. I would love to have such, too!
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Time was I used to daydream of inheriting money and the house I’d have built (single storey with an inner courtyard as my secret garden)
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Ah yes… I would dearly love that. I am thisclose to getting rid of my blasted pool and making a special garden. Not impossible. Whether I have to change the lining or have it filled in, it will be rather costly.
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A sunken garden. Almost as good as a secret garden
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Ooohhhh… that would be lovely
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That’s what I’m thinking. You’d have to make sure you had adequate draining. But it would be protected from damaging winds.
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Indubitably. One would not want to find a lake after every rainfall.
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These are very beautiful pictures
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Thank you, Sadje. I love to see the early flowers
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You are most welcome
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🥰🥰🥰
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Lovely signs of spring!
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I’m impatient for the riots of colour and warm walks!
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