Is it when your new beautiful double yellow hellebore flowers?

This one was a birthday gift from my Mother – and she is very shy -

The Hellebore that is, not my Mother.

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How do you know when Spring has arrived in your garden?

Is it when your new beautiful double yellow hellebore flowers?

This one was a birthday gift from my Mother – and she is very shy -

The Hellebore that is, not my Mother.

Do you know that Spring has arrived when the leaves start breaking on the willow tree?

Perhaps the herald of spring is a bright primula?

If I was a half decent garden photographer I would have carefully brushed all the soil off this bright little face.

Perhaps you know that Spring is here when the gaudy tulips that you got as an unlooked for “free gift” open their petals in the afternoon sun?

Or you know that spring is definitely here when the delicious anemone coronaria “Bordeaux” unfurls

With a colour so rich and deep that the camera has difficulty in capturing it.

Although all of these are signs of spring in the garden – for me the real sign of spring is when the air suddenly takes on a softness

The garden has a numinous quality and you simply know that Spring has arrived.

I will be away from my computer for the next week -

But please do leave a comment to say how YOU know when spring has arrived in your garden.