Spring is here
I was out wandering around Head Rambles Manor on Christmas Eve.
I saw something that surprised me. In fact it surprised me so much that I photographed it..
Now that may not look like much. It looks like a bit of scrubland, which in fact it is. It is an area that is normally shaded by a weeping birch and during the summer, it is completely hidden. In the winter, however, it is exposed to full view, but as the photograph shows, there isn’t that much to be seen usually.
So what did I see there?
Here is a closer shot..
Those green spikes sticking up in clusters are snowdrops.
Normally I wouldn’t see them until into the new year, yet there they are.
Having seen them, I poked around in another part of the estate and found that the daffodils are up also.
I suppose some of you may say that there is nothing unusual in this, but Head Rambles Manor is at quite an altitude, and growth here is a little behind the rest of the country, with the lower temperatures that we experience.
The first sign of daffodils and snowdrops is always a cheering thing.
Spring is on the way.
I can’t believe it – snowdrops already? It’s that global warming caused by the Hairy One’s fairy lights!
It is pretty early for them all right. I was even more surprised at the daffodils showing their tips. They usually don’t come up until the second half of January or later.
Flowers? What are bloody flowers doing popping their little faces up during a winter like this one. I guess they didn’t get the memo that it’s freakin’ cold outside.
Aww, I remember snowdrops and daffodils (They mark spring here too) and bluebells . . I love this blog by the way . . .(and you’ve trimmed up nicely!)
Geez, where I’m from we don’t see these types of things until march at least. Around these parts January and February last about 6 months too (or at least they seem to).
That’s it! I’m definitely moving to Ireland where I can see daffodil shoots in December.
Brianf: What can you expect if you insist on living in a desolate place?
Baino: Welcome! I think it’s a little early for bluebells yet? What do you mean ‘I have trimmed up nicely’? I was always nicely trim!
Kirk M: Come to sunny Ireland and see the daffodil shoots in December, and Grandad shoot all year ’round. 🙂