Garden Photo Diary for May

May's garden pics are now posted here at Flickr. Everything's looking very lush and green, though of course nowhere nearly as advanced as the gardens I saw earlier this month in England. Still, it's my own little patch and I think it's doing great!

Back to the British Isles

At last! In less than 24 hours, I'll be on a plane making my way to London. My bag is packed - and it's shockingly roomy. I'm flying with a charter and so am only allowed one suitcase, weighing no more than 45 lbs. I didn't know how I was going to manage to pack for a 10-day trip, and still have room to bring stuff home - but somehow, I did! My suitcase is a svelte 28 lbs! Luckily our rental flat in London has a washer/dryer - other than my travel outfit, I'm only bringing four outfits and one extra pair of shoes. The latter is nothing short of miraculous, frankly.

True to form, the 10-day forecast for London is showing plenty of rain, but temperatures of 15-20 degrees, at least. I've packed my brolly...

2009 Garden Photo Diary

I've decided to resurrect my monthly garden photo diaries over on Flickr. I did them in the summers of 2005 and 2006, but haven't bothered during the past two summers. There didn't seem much point, what with the Great Shed Project of 2007 and last summer's extensive landscaping. But this summer will, I hope, see the culmination of several years of planning work. With the foundations of the new garden now laid, and lots of reorganization of various flower beds and plenty of new plantings last fall, I am very excited to see how the garden will look this year.

So, I've posted a few pics for the month of April, to start. May should be glorious. The trees currently have that wonderfully fuzzy pale-green frill about them - within a week, tender new leaves will be emerging. In the flower beds, we've had daffodils, striped squill, snowdrops and crocuses a-blooming, and the tulips are ready to pop anytime now. The forsythia bush is a little bit early this year also, and is nearly in full sunshiny bloom already.