April was the driest for some years, and not for the first time we had an absence of April showers – ideal growing weather for seeds. This May, in Wales we have had our full allocation of average rainfall and its only the 17th! And our weather could be described as April showers!
Only now, are the trees cautiously coming into leaf, rather than “bursting”, a descriptor previously used.
The bluebells are rapidly becoming my favourite plant with their resilience and optimism in their colonisation remarkable to behold.
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Hot weather on the way, and we don’t like it. We generally don’t stop, there’s…