Garden Audit 2014

January 30, 2014 by Jenni Clutten | 13 Comments

“And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. ”
- Exerpt, Adelstrop by Edward Thomas

I am so excited as I sit here quickly editing down these photos of our garden that I took this morning.  It is all misty, dull and grey outside but I was amazed at how much I saw poking out from the earth and shooting out from the branches.  I didn’t think there would be much to share but how wrong I was.  Everything I have photographed has been planted by the previous owners so I am purely admiring their bountiful handiwork.

There will never be another ‘first’ spring in our garden.  Not like this year where I have scowering the earth for signs of life, I can see so many spring bulbs, I have no idea what colour they will be or quite what they are.  How wonderful.  I discovered today that there are bulbs planted in a circle around the plum tree in the middle of the lawn.  As these grow I will update the photo labels so I can identify them correctly but as yet it’s still really difficult to label them.

Not all these photos are in focus as I was desperately hopping around the garden, baby strapped to my chest in a sling with one eye keeping an eye on Nye as he watered every inch of the vegetable beds.  I have included them as I desperately want to work out what all the plants are!  If you know can identify any of the plants please enlighten me. (p.s yes I am incredibly lucky to have inherited this amazing garden.)

Then, in the vegetable garden Nye is busy at work, transferring rain water from a trug, to a watering can, to his wheel barrow.  He is totally in his element un-phased by the cold, quietly concentrating on his ‘work.’.  As I am snapping away in the back garden I suddenly hear him talking to the postman who has posted my neighbors post through my door.

There are even a few flowers to be found, in January, I can’t quite believe my eyes.
Thank you for dropping by, as usual I am linking up with the How Does Your Garden Grow linky.