There will be plenty of cold (and probably wet) weather to get through, before spring is safely here, but a couple of rather more pleasant days recently have left the garden looking as though it is starting to wake up.

In particular the emergence in the last couple of days of some crocuses/croci (choose your preferred plural) provides a real promise of things to come.

The rhubarb is also starting to come through and while we don’t force it, we do use a cloche to give it a little bit of protection once it has started to grow away.

Inspired by a bit of sunshine we completed the winter prune of our Wisteria.  This is now relatively mature (we planted it 15 or so years ago, but it was already showing flowers when we bought it) and we have largely got a framework, with which we are happy.

 The photo below shows what it looked like four summers ago and later this year we’ll give you a sight of how it has developed since then.

There is the promise of some decent weather early next week, but probably more cold to come after that so let’s hope that these early signs aren’t a false dawn.