Spring flowers

Our house is on the side of a hill and outside the kitchen the ground is at window level. Right now it is covered with yellow narcissi and one red tulip.  We have had this one tulip for years. Originally there were lots of them but they gradually dwindled, all but this one. What is really strange is that two years ago Hubby dug the whole patch over and replanted the narcissi plus more tulips. None of the new tulips came up and, funnily enough, this one seems too be in exactly the same place, so Hubby must have missed it!

It reminds me of a lovely thing that Hubby did when Cat, our daughter was born. this was almost 26 years ago and in those days we had daffodils and red tulips growing on the bank at the back of our house. They always came out together, so they must have been late daffodils – or early tulips! I used to love them. They were just beginning to bloom when I went into labour with Cat. In those days it was quite normal to stay in hospital for several days when you had a baby. and, as we drove there, I remarked that I would miss the best of the display this year.

That night my precious daughter was born and I forgot about the flowers. The next morning my husband came into the ward with a bunch of flowers. They were not ones he had picked up at the petrol station on the way in. He had gone out and picked me a bunch of the daffodils and tulips from our garden so that I wouldn’t miss them!

Everywhere is looking really beautiful at the moment. The daffodils are still out. We drove into Wales yesterday where the roads are lined with them, and the blossom is also out. Usually that happens later, you don’t see them together. The blackthorne is blooming in the hedgerows and there are white and pink cherry blossom trees everywhere, but my favouite is the magnolia. I planted one in the garden several years ago and although we have had a few blooms before, this is the first year there have been dozens of them.

My daughter loves the blossom. It was the first thing she saw after leaving the hospital as we drove round to the park to see the blossom trees.