It’s looking very yellow in the garden now with a multitude of daffodils everywhere and many different types. Those with orange centres near to the house and some lighter, almost white ones that I prefer further down the garden. The daffodils that I planted in the orchard a couple of years ago ( and wasn’t sure were deep enough ) have come up strongly again.

I sowed my first seed of the year yesterday. In the propagator;  four types of tomatoes, basil, chilis and perennial sunflower. In modules in the greenhouse two types of globe artichoke ( I aim to grow a few of them up in the hot dry bed in front of the garage) and in a ‘window box’ in the greenhouse salad leaves.  It is exciting to  get the first crops underway.

It was a little warmer yesterday and I saw my first honey bee of the year, in the crocuses near to the pond. I love crocuses and I love bees. One day I will have a hive, just as my grandad did. I shall put it near to the orchard at the bottom of the garden and I shall underplant the orchard with flowering herbs.