March2023
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 05 March
Visited Nostell saw first wigeon
Pruned and tidied autumn rapberries
Mulched fruits bushes with manure
Completed path behind laurels
Harvested horseradish, leeks and purple sprouting broccoli
Meteorological spring arrives – really!
It was going so well
Nostell video
06 -12 March
No gardening snowed
Hippeatrum on flower
A cold and snowy start to March
A touch of snow
13- 19 March
Camellias startung ti flower
Wren nest building
Took cuttings from sarcococca
Lots of fruit trees buddingcut back ferns
Pruned rises in the garden
Planted spare onions in gaps
Mulched more rhubarb and autumn raspberries
Dug remaining parsnips
Picked some daffodils
Someone’s busy
Still waiting for spring
Managed a little gardening
20 - 26 March
Harvested some leeks
Hard pruned sambucus nigra and hazels
Trimmed shrub roses
Primroses flowering
27 - 31 March
Swans nesting at Nostell
Celandines beginning to flower
Just lovely seeing spring in your garden. I loved the wren, we have one hopping about. They are surprisingly loud! Gorgeous swan and water bird photos.xxx
We’re looking forward to this year’s brood of cygnets, Dina