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It has taken an age to warm up this year. We are over half way through May and you wouldn't know it from the weather. Yesterday we had hail stones the size of marbles and downpours like stair rods. For a few months it had been dry and cold but now we seem to be caught in a pattern of cool temperatures and sudden showers. At least it has stopped falling so low at night in the last fortnight.
The flowers have all been late, but now they are starting to catch up and so are the trees. It has been a year of Cowslips, they seem to be everywhere this year. New spots and places where there were one or two are a vision of yellow nodding heads. We were in Sussex a fortnight ago and we sat Lady's mantle and Cuckoo's Pint, but up here it is forget-me-not, borrage, Solomon's seal and cow parsley everywhere with the Cowslips. I love to see it. And now my favourite - Lillac - is coming into bloom.
I only have to smell it to be called back to my grandparents house. Every year my nanna would tell me that it was unlucky to bring lilac branches into the house, and every year she would do it anyway because she loved it like I do. Their garden had an amazing apple tree like nothing I have tasted or seen before or since. My grandad would grow beans and marrows at the bottom of the garden and at the top there were flower beds. I wish they had both lived longer and that my partner had met them. I was only 13 when they died, one after the other. But I have the happiest memories of spending hours in their little garden, making mud pies and shelling peas.
The flowers have all been late, but now they are starting to catch up and so are the trees. It has been a year of Cowslips, they seem to be everywhere this year. New spots and places where there were one or two are a vision of yellow nodding heads. We were in Sussex a fortnight ago and we sat Lady's mantle and Cuckoo's Pint, but up here it is forget-me-not, borrage, Solomon's seal and cow parsley everywhere with the Cowslips. I love to see it. And now my favourite - Lillac - is coming into bloom.
I only have to smell it to be called back to my grandparents house. Every year my nanna would tell me that it was unlucky to bring lilac branches into the house, and every year she would do it anyway because she loved it like I do. Their garden had an amazing apple tree like nothing I have tasted or seen before or since. My grandad would grow beans and marrows at the bottom of the garden and at the top there were flower beds. I wish they had both lived longer and that my partner had met them. I was only 13 when they died, one after the other. But I have the happiest memories of spending hours in their little garden, making mud pies and shelling peas.
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