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<\/a>A bucket of hyacinths<\/p><\/div>\n
Jackie was thrilled with her bucket and in exchange gave me a bag of dandelions from the allotment for the girl’s dandelion patch that I am starting and a bag of seed potatoes. One of her friends also gave me a bunch of daffodils from the allotment.<\/p>\n
The biggest clump of dandelion had quite a bit of grass with it so I gave that the to the girls yesterday afternoon and the rest I planted in their patch.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The girl’s dandelion patch<\/p><\/div>\n
You can see how interested the girls are in their patch. They go crazy when I pull leaves off and put them through the wire for them.<\/p>\n
Else where in the garden are plenty of signs of spring.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Miniature daffodils<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Primula<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Pulmonaria<\/p><\/div>\n
The clocks go forward an hour tonight so the evenings will be lighter and it will feel even more like spring. The chickens are laying and the garden is blooming and spring feels like it really is on it’s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few days ago we were shopping in town when I came across a florist with some chicken buckets filled with pink hyacinths. They were marked down to half price because the florist said they had been around a while … Continue reading