The lovely settled Spring weather we're enjoying at the moment not only raises the spirits. It also means all those garden jobs that have been rained off - or put off because of the cold - now have to be done. In our case, there's plenty to do.Not only are we trying to get some grass seed (a hard wearing clover mix for the boys to play on) down as soon as possible, but we've needed to build some raised beds, shift the water butts around, make a really sloping garden into different levels that are all vaguely, er, level, make a path round to the compost bins and put some firm standing down there, clear loads of overgrown (and quite vicious) shrubs that are a bit in the way, and dig several hundredweight of gravel, rubble and huge housebricks out of the earth. In amongst all this, there are the seedlings too that need watching, re-potting and all that.
In amongst all this slightly frantic activity, it's good to enjoy plants that just grow by themselves without any effort on our part. In the wilder part of the garden (it needs taming, but not too much), the fritillaries are looking lovely, especially on a bright day like today.
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