It’s officially spring in my garden. Snowdrops are blooming in a bright cluster near the back door. This is a quirk of climate change,...

The only way to stay sane through a snowy spring is to never, never fall into the trap of thinking that snow = winter. This is spring...

A month after the first flower opened in my garden, we’re still at the first flowers stage. I now have crocuses, snowdrops, scilla, and...

The garden is in that snow-rapidly-melting garden-emerging disheveled stage, when I’m desperate to get out and work, just to be in it,...

My aptly named snowdrops, after a spring snowfall. Maureen

We still have piles of snow (how is that possible?) but plants are bravely venturing up, first snowdrops, and now some tiny crocus. Small...

We still have piles of snow, but as they melt, grass is looking green in patches (where it isn’t covered in snow mould), and plants are ...