Great morning at the park, sunny, warm and no wind! Spring is bursting forth with lots more daffodils out, a magnificent show of primulas and the witch hazels adding colour too. We’ve dug over the east border and it’s looking good.
There has been a lot of damage to the star this winter and we are blocking up the gaps in the terrace hedge to reduce the animal traffic through the hedge, down to the star. We hope it makes a difference.
A cold and windy but dry morning, we stopped just before the rain started. Tidying was again the order of the day. At least the park is looking pretty good.
I spotted a fern, with spores, growing on the south wall.
Starbank Park features in the BBC website – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-31751407 – it’s image 14.
Spotted this morning in the Newhaven Heritage boat planter.
All of a sudden, we’ve had a glorious spring morning. Where did that come from? More tidying in the park and it’s really looking good.
I gave a talk on the Park at Wardie Church Guild on Wednesday. Everyone was very nice and Justin set up the projector, avoiding my blushes! I therefore had a day off gardening but the Friends and Julie more than made up for my absence by getting loads done in the east border.
The park is looking good. The daffodils are shooting up and there’s plenty colour. We even had a visit from a pheasant on Friday.
If you look hard, you can see the pheasant
A fair and busy morning, digging, weeding and planting were the main activities. The main result of our work was an un-raked border.
Other features of today were the nice new notices at the gates and plenty signs of spring.
Spring is round the corner! There’s lots to do and frost isn’t forecast! Come along if you can.
The ground was frozen solid this morning but we managed to prune some more of the laurel (I do hope it’s hardy!), do a chunk of tidying up and enjoy coffee and cakes. Despite the cold weather some of the plants seem to think it’s spring. The daffodils are coming through and the primulas are giving a great show for frozen February.
There were loads of birds this morning with mistle thrushes, song thrush, blue tits, great tits, chaffinches, tree creeper, grey wagtail, wood pigeons, blackbirds, starlings, magpies, house sparrows, robins, dunnocks and crows all in evidence in the park.
Weather permitting!
