Is it Spring yet?

The calendar has flipped over to March, and signs of Spring approaching are all around, but next week is threatening to be cold and possibly snowy!

Even so the garden is starting to come back to life. 

There are early daffodils appearing here and there (seemingly not quite where they should be), though a bit battered by recent wind.

Lenten roses adding a touch of purple 

and bergenias, a touch of pink

This is the time when the front garden looks its best. The early clumps of snowdrops now have crocus and primroses growing alongside them.

I'm just hoping that everything survives next week's weather,
 

Snowdrops

I've let this blog slide for a long while - years, in fact - but what better time to revive it than when snowdrops are flowering and Spring seems round the corner.

I've been out and about - to Kedleston and Hopton Hall  - to see snowdrop displays, but the photos here were taken in my garden.

Starting many years ago from a small clump they've spread, by seed, by me dividing and re-planting just after flowering, by birds lifting the shoots in early spring, till they almost circle the back lawn (and a couple of escapees have rooted among the rhubarb).

As the first real sign of Spring (or at least the end of winter) snowdrops are always a welcome sight, and this year they seem to have done exceptionally well. The weather has been kind. They don't mind cold nights, and so far February has been free of snow or heavy rain which can flatten them.