Thursday 12 March 2015

Almost Spring

Welcome back everyone and an especial welcome to my new followers. I'm so pleased that you all liked my crocheted Granny stripe blanket. Your comments were so kind.

Although we are having some really horrible weather these days, it is undeniable that it is almost Spring. In between the howling wind and lashing rain (like today!) we get some beautiful sunshine and calm lulls.

The garden is also proof that Spring has just about sprung. I took a walk round the garden the other day to take some photos.





Can you see the honey bee in this crocus? This is a close up of some of the flowers in the bed above. The whole bed seemed to be humming because there were so many bees in the crocuses. Honey bees love crocuses; especially the purples ones, it seems.




There's another bee among the yellow crocuses.



Ha!! A bee coming into land! Can you see it?



This hellebore is the latest addition to our garden. We bought it recently in the market in Banbridge. I love the colour of it.




Lots more daffodils still to bloom. I can't wait for them all to come into full flower.



So many of the Spring flowers are yellow, aren't they?



Well I hope you enjoyed that quick look round the garden. No doubt I'll be back some time with lots more flower pictures.

My Aran coat is coming on well. I'm surprised at how well, given the number of times I've left it to the side to work on something else! The back, a front and both sleeves are finished. That just leaves the other front and the collar to do. And the putting together, of course. I was worried about having enough yarn so, after finishing the first sleeve, I did a calculation. No worries. There will be plenty to finish my coat. All you knitters and crocheters know that what I really mean is that there will be plenty left over to use for something else! I have some other colours in this same type of yarn and quite a lot in a very similar yarn. Maybe another blanket?

25 comments:

  1. I'm sure I've said this before but your garden is amazing ! Looks massive! And of course colourful :)
    Jillxo

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  2. so much colour in your garden, it's lovely to see.
    Caz xx

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  3. Spring is most definitely springing in your garden!! How wonderful everything looks, I especially live the crocuses!!! Thank you again for the socks - I know that I have said it a lot, but really, they are so fabulous!!! xx

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  4. Beautiful flowers, Gillian! I can't wait for the snow to be totally gone so I can watch buds poking from the ground here too.

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  5. Your flowers are so pretty. I've never grown crocuses but I love them. They always make me think of Easter eggs.

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  6. Loved seeing all your pretty spring flowers....so cheerful and such lovely colours!
    Happy weekend!
    Helen xox

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  7. What a wonderfully sunny post! It's lovely to see all the spring flowers appearing. I'll be showing off my gorgeous socks soon on the blog. x

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  8. Your flowers are so beautiful.
    Hugs,
    Meredith

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  9. Your garden is looking very spring like. The hellebore is a beauty, such a pretty colour.

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  10. Hello Gillian,
    Wonderful pictures of these wonderful spring flowers. Great the crocuses.
    And what a beautiful flowers of the hellebore.
    I can see that spring time is started Gillian..., lovely!!

    Many greetings,
    Marco

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  11. What a lovely pretty garden. Thanks for sharing. :-)

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  12. I love the flowers in your garden. One day, when er live on our own house, not a rented one, I will make a beautiful garden. I used to have it and I really miss it. Flowers in pots is not the same.

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  13. I think that I like the early blooms of spring even more than the full blooms of summer - they seem so brave and hopeful.
    Lovely photos!
    Amalia
    xo

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  14. Beautiful spring flowers! I just love all the colors!
    Thanks for sharing. ♥

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  15. I love your blanket in your previous post what a great stash-buster I would love it if you linked it to the March stash party.I tried to leave a comment last week but it disappeared somewhere and haven't had to time to get back till now. It's always lovely to see the Spring flowers I treat myself to some daffodils today they are just stems at the moment I can't wait for them to bloom. I'm looking forward to seeing your sampler blanket, I made one with the 200 knitted blocks last year and I loved how it turned out. Have a great weekend. :)

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    1. Hi Linda, I've added a link for my blanket to the March stash party. Can you explain how I put the stash-buster link party button on my blog? I've never been able to add a button so far - mainly because I don't know how to. Thanks, Gillian

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  16. So beautiful flowers ... we need to see now. we all need spring !!!! HAve a lovely sunday !

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  17. So many great spring flowers!! :-) Love it!

    We had a winter break in this week, lots of flowers frooze to death. :( Very sad.

    Take care
    Anne (Crochet Between Worlds)

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  18. so lovely to see little signs of spring in your garden, and I love the blanket in your last post, so gorgeous xxx

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  19. Hello Gillian, I wanted to write a little note to thank you again for the Liebster Award. It took me longer than expected to respond and not because I didn't appreciate your kindness. It made me VERY happy. I had a holiday abroad and then a family emergency and the day job piled up and suddenly I was behind on everything. Thought I'd write and explain. Thanks again!
    Amalia
    xo

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    1. Don't worry about not getting a post done for the award! There's no rush and it's certainly not meant to put you under pressure. I hope everything calms down for you soon.

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    2. It is up! And it was fun, great questions.
      Today we have our national elections which means a whole day off, what a treat.
      xo

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    3. Great - I'll go on over and read it. We have a holiday today too.

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  20. What a beautiful garden in bloom! I love the combination of purple and yellow!

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