Spring is Springing (1 Viewer)

[DBK]

A week or so of mild weather seems to have given nature a bit of incentive to get on with the Spring thing. I took these pictures a few days ago.

Elderflower

Not 100% sure on this one. It was in a hedge but is a tree species I think. Might be Sycamore or something like that. Have to wait for the leaves to emerge.

Celandine

Honeysuckle

Hazel catkins - been out for a few weeks now.

Dandelion

Gorse - which has been in flower all winter but the blossoms looks bigger and brighter now.

Blackthorn

Hawthorn

Goosegrass and nettles growing strongly.

 

[Riverbankannie]

It's a pity that today is cold and wet and tomorrow set to be worse!

 

[Chris]

Thanks.

I love Spring

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[DBK]

Bramble leaves a-growing

Campion

Hart's Tongue fern

Primrose

 

[movan]

Bramble leaves a-growing

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Campion

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Hart's Tongue fern

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Primrose

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Beautiful photos John .. I was only thinking this morning how beautiful the aubretia is at the moment. It is the only colour in my garden as yet as the Forsythia has died..

 

[hilldweller]

A week or so of mild weather seems to have given nature a bit of incentive to get on with the Spring thing.

Oh dear, time to get the brush cutter started, soon the deadly bracken and stinging nettles will be active.

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[CWH]

What a lovely set of pictures John, thank you! Love the cleavers & nettles picture especially.
Shows the difference in the climate between Devon and West Cornwall - though some of those are coming on here, others aren't yet.

 

[DavidG58]

we had our first frogspawn 2 weeks ago, just checked today, we already have some tadpoles

 

[movan]

Don't forget it is that time of year ... PLEASE check large empty pots or water buckets every day ... I keep finding trapped frogs and toads that can't get out and would have drowned if I hadn't found them .. Also had one sad little dormouse on her last ..swimming in a bucket.

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[yodeli]

we had our first frogspawn 2 weeks ago, just checked today, we already have some tadpoles

Pictures please, if you don't mind my asking , I'm trying to learn , even though I don't know half of them in French, and pics might help me to identify the flowers.... I realise how poor my vocabulary is on the matter!
Oh and Beautiful pictures John! @John Laidler

Edit: @DavidG58 Just realised you were not talking about flowers! I regularly find little dead lezards trapped in buckets!

 

[DBK]

Pictures please, if you don't mind my asking , I'm trying to learn , even though I don't know half of them in French, and pics might help me to identify the flowers.... I realise how poor my vocabulary is on the matter!
Oh and Beautiful pictures John! @John Laidler

Edit: @DavidG58 Just realised you were not talking about flowers! I regularly find little dead lezards trapped in buckets!

French tadpole.

 

[DavidG58]

Pictures please, if you don't mind my asking , I'm trying to learn , even though I don't know half of them in French, and pics might help me to identify the flowers.... I realise how poor my vocabulary is on the matter!
Oh and Beautiful pictures John! @John Laidler

Edit: @DavidG58 Just realised you were not talking about flowers! I regularly find little dead lezards trapped in buckets!

Evening Frankie

Always more than happy to return a favour for you

I will still take a photo tomorrow if the sun shines

A tadpole is the first stage of a frog after frogspawn, most of ours are consumed by the fish and the blackbirds before they make it to frogs, but we still get 100's of baby frogs that we call froglets, but that is a made up word

David and Bev x

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[buttons]

Bramble leaves a-growing

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Campion

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Hart's Tongue fern

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Primrose

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Nice display JL but those bloody brambles can be a pain if you don't keep on top of them...

 

[CWH]

Nice display JL but those bloody brambles can be a pain if you don't keep on top of them...

...or if you do

 

[buttons]

...or if you do

I was once riding my bike in Norfolk over some sand dunes when I put my foot down but the ground had disappeared and I went head first into a layer of brambles. I couldn't move or push myself up because of these inch long thorns. I was laying with my head down hill and unable to move. The kids laughed their socks off before getting some help to pull me out. Didn't do that again..

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[JJ]

KILL BRAMBLES.

JJ

 

[DavidG58]

a run round our garden this morning in the sun

nearly all the frogspawn is now gone, converted to thousands of tadpoles @yodeli

and some of our plants, possibly one of my favourite shrubs, Kerria

quite possibly the earliest clematis flowers we will ever have had up here

another great favourite of ours Photinia

and with sun, out comes Bev for a sleep, but bless her with a beer for me

happy sunny spring days

 

[grasscutter]

Definately Spring .
Two lafumas and a bottle of prosecco out in our garden

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[Doctor Dave]

Spring is sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where
The mower is.

 

[hilldweller]

French tadpole.

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No, a picture of old-mo's sperm.

 

[CWH]

a run round our garden this morning in the sun

nearly all the frogspawn is now gone, converted to thousands of tadpoles

Sadly lots of clumps of frog and strings of toad spawn marooned on the paths in Grizedale Forest as the puddles on the paths are drying out. Still, I suppose they'll provide a good meal for other forest creatures.

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[Manxcat]

Sitting in a campsite just outside Abbeyville, wonderful sunshine all day. A chill in the air but definitely spring is here.

 

[Deleted member 43219]

You're season is a lot further ahead than here in Fort William John, nevertheless, the camellia in our garden is blooming at least a month earlier than usual and yesterday there was a Painted lady butterfly in our garden, a migrant species that is normally seen in summer. Whatever will climate change bring next!

 

[JJ]

JJ

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