Daffodils

Unusual daffodils, very pale, growing at the roadside.

daffodils https://t.co/yvdpzMwP7C #daffodils #Washingborough #Lincoln #flowers pic.twitter.com/rynNF1evtN

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 26, 2017

daffodils https://t.co/sE2Ljp0q0f #daffodils #Washingborough #Lincoln #flowers pic.twitter.com/63rA8r9sKp

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 26, 2017

daffodils https://t.co/dsfXwv5OaT #daffodils #Washingborough #Lincoln #flowers pic.twitter.com/qKjQjyB26B

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 26, 2017

daffodils https://t.co/p6aryiqfin #daffodils #Washingborough #Lincoln #flowers pic.twitter.com/qFAnWvVObs

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 26, 2017

Garden flowers

For about a week, spring flowers have been out in the garden.

Frost at six in the morning, a lovely warm sunny spring day, sat in the garden reading Standart issue 6.

garden flowers pic.twitter.com/b5JsLvGiKb

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 25, 2017

garden flowers pic.twitter.com/MSEaN9GdOS

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 25, 2017

garden flowers pic.twitter.com/E1MC5CMF55

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 25, 2017

garden flowers pic.twitter.com/or981djAKp

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) March 25, 2017

Hard frost in the morning

Third day of hard frost in the morning.

Cold frosty morning. #frostymorning #frost #Washingborough pic.twitter.com/escMmhUbtv

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) December 29, 2016

Hard frost this morning. #frostymorning #frost #Washingborough pic.twitter.com/rBaPTgy2uL

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) December 29, 2016

Cold frosty day

Tuesday, frost all day, it never cleared.

Tuesday night, inky black sky, stars shining bright.

Wednesday morning a hard frost.

The sun was shining in the morning.

Fading light, since early afternoon fog rolling in, visibility dropping by the minute.

And yet only three days before, on Christmas Day, temperature was 15 C in Aberdeen, 14 C in Hull in Yorkshire.

Hard frost this morning. #frostymorning #Washingborough pic.twitter.com/O0W4ziNXPo

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) December 28, 2016

Fallen leaves

Yesterday and today, raking up fallen leaves.

Last night it rained, making the leaves wet and heavy and much harder work.

But best time to rake up, as leaves are wet and sodden and rot down.

If dry, they blow all over in the wind.

fallen leaves #garden pic.twitter.com/QARjPvUIVP

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) December 10, 2016

fallen leaves #garden pic.twitter.com/L9nA0TTs7p

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp) December 10, 2016

Passion flower

passion flower

passion flower

On Sunday in Brighton, walking down from Brighton Station to Grocer and Grain on my way to the seafront, I came across passion flowers growing on a garden wall.

I only noticed them because a man was photographing them.

I asked was it his garden? He said no. He was passing by and they caught his eye.

He did not know what they were. I said passion flower. I used to see them growing in Neal’s yard in Covent Garden.

I said I was on my way to the seafront, but first Grocer and Grain. I recommended he too visited Grocer and Grain.

• PHOTOS Passion flowers

Relaxing in the shade

Bob the Cat relaxing in the shade

A very hot day, so far at 33.5C the hottest day of the year.

Bob the Cat wisely deiced to spend the day in the shade in the garden.

Bluebells in flower

bluebells

Bluebells in the garden started to come into flower last week.

Daffodils still in flower.

In the garden

 

daffodils

I was very surprised, several days on, to find daffodils still in flower in the garden.

Yesterday, a row of broad beans variety …, sowed.

Leaves tidied up.

Grass seed sowed.

Jardin de Aclimatación de la Orotava

Alpinia zerumbet

Informally referred to as Jardines Botánicos (Botanical Gardens, the equivalent of Kew Gardens), but strictly speaking Jardin de Aclimatación de la Orotava.

The Conquistadores not only brought back gold (oro) they also brought back plants. These were not taken directly to Spain, they were first planted in the Orotava Valley.

• PHOTOS Jardin de Aclimatación de la Orotava