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March already

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.

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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.

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If you look hard, you can see the pheasant

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Frozen!

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.

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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.