Some gardening happens

The weather is slowly improving, in the sense of getting a little warmer.  As usual, as we move towards the equinox it is damn windy but I have been getting into the garden a bit.

In celebration of getting the vegie garden fence finished I have erected a new compost bin.

In the film "Field of Dreams" the catchphrase was "If you build it, they will come."  As a slight variant on this, I could say "If you build it, you'll soon start filling it up with weeds."

One of the early tasks was pruning some blackcurrant bushes which survived the fire.  While a lot of the prunings visited my pile (and subsequently contributed to global warming.I stuck some of the twigs in the ground.  Somewhat to my surprise they have all started to sprout.

The main flowers around the garden are a few hellebores ...

... and snowflakes (like snowdrops, but different).

Daffodils are appearing but not yet flashing their yellow around.

 A Jonquil has however staggered into bloom.

After years of trying we now seem to have got some very vigorous Acanthus growing around the garden.  Flowers will be a long while coming.

The garden trees are getting to the bud swollen stage. In the case of a maple these are leaf buds ..

 .. while a Prunus on the kitchen lawn is plastered with flowers.

On the rest of the block the Acacia dealbata (Silver Wattle) is beginning to flower.    We are always surprised to see how this is a prized specimen tree in English gardens: it approaches weed status here!