Flowers In The House Monday

Today is Flowers In The House Monday.  I don't have flowers to pick from the garden at the moment but I do like to have a jug of something of the kitchen sink. I bought these Cornish Daffodils from the supermarket. As you can see Fridays lovely weather hasn't lasted.

Working in the garden

Corylus contorta

At last, a sunny warm day and a chance to work in the garden. The soil is very wet so I worked along the edge of the paths. Sadly both of the Osterospurmums jocundums have succumbed to the winter weather.
I was surprised to see the two lavenders seem to be thriving, I did not think they would survive.

I took this photograph after clearing various seedlings and grass. I grew a lot of my cut flowers along this path last summer.

Speaking of cut flowers, I picked a stem of Hellebore but it had flopped over after a couple of days. I cut off the flowerheads and floated them in water.

Hellebore orientalis

In the garden

The Spring flowers have really grown over the past week.

Snowdrops

 

 

Hellebores

The warmer weather has encouraged the Viburnum fragrans to flower again.

Viburnum fragrans

The 'Catkins' on Corylus avellana are looking good.

My sister gave me some flowers this week.

Bouquet

The arrangement contained one stem of an Alstroemeria which was so pretty I put it into a vase on its own

Alstroemeria

The vase is one of my newest, it came from a charity shop and cost £1.