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Maria Totman's avatar

above the clamour of television and screeching of tyres on tarmac,

a blackbird lifts its own voice

and sings its own song . the sweetest of all, from the rooftops at dusk ,

heralding the night

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Chris Kenneford's avatar

Chiffchaffs chiffing and chaffing all over the place.

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Tracy Coward's avatar

Suddenly everywhere!

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Anne's avatar

Lovely! 😄

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Rosamund Saunders's avatar

In search of primroses, I went to Bow Cemetery and found a rolling ocean of wild garlic and ‘no foraging’ signs. There were wood anemones, violets, celandines and tiny blue iris-like clumps and, finally, primroses in the warm, dappling sun.

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Hilary May's avatar

Magnolias, magnolias, magnolias (& cherries & other blossom). Definitely been a good year for them. Also Wood Anemones don’t remember seeing so many in previous years.

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NICOLA PURCICOE's avatar

there are loads of magnolia trees out in bloom in my village mostly white but a few of the dark pink ones and one house has a large magnolia tree in its front garden that has yellow flowers, its beautiful and i have never seen yellow magnolia anywhere else.

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Amy's avatar

The bats are back! Deftly hunting flies over the beach last night.

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Mo's avatar

I saw one in broad daylight the other day outside my house. maybe it had just woken up and was disorientated?

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Amy's avatar

Wow! That sounds plausible? It was quite light yesterday.

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Rosamund Saunders's avatar

Ooo thanks! I’ll keep a lookout

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Emma Bennie's avatar

My first seedling has germinated, a pea, then 3 more on Wednesday and then a broad bean yesterday.

My cherry tree is just starting to flower so I have all the blossom to look forward to.

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

I’ve kept my poinsettia alive much longer than usual, it looks odd next to the bunch of daffodils on the windowsill. A clash of seasons and colours.

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Anne's avatar

Love this 😄

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

My poinsettia is normally very dead by mid Jan!

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

Managed to keep my 2 until early March which was definitely a first Cathryn!

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Sarah's avatar

I've got a straggly little poinsettia next to some daffs as well! 😀 It's about 6 years old now and some new leaves are just turning red.

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

6 years!!! That’s much better than my 3 months 😁

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Anne's avatar

Blackbirds singing loud and clear and sparrows making such a joyful racket. More and more bees on the lungwort and a few butterflies sunning themselves - commas, peacocks and brimstones. Chives shooting up, flower tips deep in the heart of the native bluebell leaves. It has definitely felt like spring in my Sheffield garden this week.

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Amy's avatar

Gorgeous!

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Sarah's avatar

So good to hear of so many butterflies 🙂

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

That all sounds just gorgeous Anne! Same here!

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Wendy Turner's avatar

The gentle ritual of opening and closing the greenhouse at the beginning and end of each day. Inspecting seedlings, hardening off autumn sown annuals, checking what is newly emerging in the garden - such a joy to lean into the rhythm of Spring. And yes Lia - peak blossom - but possibly peak yellow too! Forsythia and marsh marigolds joining the primroses and later daffs. Spashes of sunshine!

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

A beautiful word picture Wendy - lovely 😘

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Art Vandelay's avatar

A beautiful train journey to Aberdeen, full of colour - the North Sea banded in paler blues, greens and vivid turquoise; gorse; trees just coming into leaf. (And a very enjoyable and moving visit to Aberdeen Art Gallery at the end of the journey - the colour and playfulness of artists' textiles from Picasso to Warhol, the plain white silence and space of the Remembrance Hall)

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Amy Roberts's avatar

Blossom, blossom, blossom! Absolutely beautiful and popping everywhere. My little girls call it "baby blossom" 🌸

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Lou B's avatar

The scent of wild garlic fills the air. Little pops of blossom great you when you look up. The peak is yet to come. Some days you think you can tuck your thermals away, others they're firmly back on, Spring 🙃

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Sue's avatar

Wonderful spring awakening this week with flowers and blossom bursting through to bring colour back into our lives. Wandering with an old friend around a special secret garden in the New Forest we saw and smelled the camelias, azaleas and magnolias - it was really heavenly after a long wet winter.

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Mo's avatar

the scent of magnolias... bliss...

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Debbie Harris's avatar

Cheeky Mr and Mrs Blackbird are following us around the garden as we weed, dig and plant looking for worms and insects. in the trees the amorous pigeons are creating a right old rumpus and in the corner of our eaves a tiny wren is building a nest!

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NICOLA PURCICOE's avatar

i have a couple of robins doing the same

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Sarah B's avatar

Not so much with the blossoms here, as far as I've noticed. But the wild garlic is certainly here with its seas of green and pervasive aroma!

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Tracy Coward's avatar

The air saturated with the scent of coconut from so many flowering gorse bushes on a day trip to Dunwich Heath, soundtracked by waves tumbling over the pebbled shore. Our baby white magnolia is blooming it's heart out this week (but I still crave a huge pink one, so grand and dame-like in their beauty)

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Amy's avatar

Yes, the gorse is marvellous currently here too.

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