We have had an amazing few months of weather: clear blue skies and sunshine. The swallows came back on Good Friday and around the same time I was seeing orange tip butterflies – truly a sign of Spring! The last of the double primroses finished off the season in style. Here ‘Sunshine Suzy’ living up to her name.The weather allowed a great deal of work to be done. After such an incredibly wet winter there has been a lot to do too. Edges to flower beds have just melted with the weight of the rain, and weeds had taken advantage. So while circumstances kept us all at home I have been able to catch up a lot on work. It has also been an opportunity to think about what works well in the garden and what I should just change. So easy to keep looking at something without really assessing it! One thing I have noticed this year is a gap in flowers in the garden once the daffodils and double primroses are over. In May the peonies and irises start, as do the roses. But there is an in-between period that I need to think about. I am being very tempted by some flowering trees and shrubs but I don’t think they will help with “the gap”! I have made a note for more tulips, more bulbs generally. Spring is such a wonderful time of year – you can’t have enough of it! Things like viburnum have such a lovely fresh look to go with the gloriously bright new growth of grass. The Horse Chestnut tree is buzzing with bees – all just wonderful!