Spring is on its way!!!

Definitely!
Look at our gorgeous newly painted signal box shining in the sunshine!

Look at those tiny bright green Delphinium shoots poking through ......

I am loving it!  With sunshine like this it is time to get the fork'n'spade out.

This square bed is where I will start .... dig out all those Primulas that are about to start flowering, take out the Sweet Williams and throw away the weeds.

A few hours later - I seemed to have slowed up a bit .... what with resting, taking cups of coffee, chatting -  we now have a prepared bed ..... weedless.

All those small and large plants are now settling into new homes ....

.... a few primulas  planted in the empty spaces in the Delphinium bed all the way along to the end.   Sweet Williams are planted along the ground at the railings (almost lineside!).  When the steam train trips start later in the year these will provide a lovely shot of colour alongside the track.


The lavender bed is showing some bareness, the summer geraniums have died back and the hyacinths are not yet high enough to bloom, so a few primulas fills this space for the time being.




We have a young volunteer in today and, while he waits for a job, he takes down my pea sticks from the Sweet Pea Garden and order is restored to another corner!




In the centre bed a small hebe is growing in the shade of its parent plant .... well it was but now it is growing in Christine C's pot, surrounded by Lysmachia, Black Mondo Grass and even some Aquilegia.  All that in one small pot you ask, well, yes!  These were planted a few years ago and now only the strongest survive !!

Now that all is dug, planted, tidies and swept there is time for a walk round this Railway Visitor's garden .....
There are two summer geraniums still surviving in the small box bed at the entrance .... for how much longer I wonder?

Now that the scaffolding has come down from around the Signal Box I can assess the damage ......

Most of the pots still have a few plants surviving and the hanging basket has new shoots as well!

The 'wheel' will be trimmed back into shape and no doubt will be throwing out it's pretty yellow flowers later in Spring.

Alas!  and Alack!  It looks as though a new lawn will have to be laid, sown, patched .....
Once the Tuesday Team have completed the Signal Box and moved onto their next project  ....... watch this space.

My concluding thought ...... Spring is on its way!!!!

YES!!!