Come on Weather!!!

Well I am getting a bit fed up with this weather now, for goodness sake its the middle of May!!!! The T-Rex is only just bursting into life.  The Hardy banana is looking decidedly dead, but when the weather warms up it should start poking through.

The Rheum down by the pond is enormous and is already beginning to flower. This gets bigger and bigger each year.

The Gunnera on the other is struggling!!

This is part of the Bronze bed. Isn't the Heuchara gorgeous.

This is another part of the bronze bed that needs rescuing!

Meanwhile in the greenhouse the banana's which I started on the 1st April are not going as fast I would have expected.

The Bougainvillea is flowering still.

Don't you just love watching seeds bursting through

It still amazes me how a large leaf can come from such a tiny seed.

It looks like an alien, about to emerge from the ground!

I'm sorry I can't help putting  photo's of Darcy on here, he makes me laugh. How he makes himself comfortable when the sun comes out!!!

I do hope the weather bucks up, I'm getting bored stuck inside!!!

Do Onions Feel the Cold?

I wondered, because when I put them in a few weeks ago, they where in lines. I tucked them in under fleece. Anchored the fleece down with tent pegs so it wouldn't take off and the cats couldn't get underneath it!

Today I uncovered them as I thought they would need a good water and they have moved???

See, they have all snuggled up together? I am really puzzled?

Have they grown legs and moved?

Has something moved them?

Are they Aliens?

Answers please......

What To Do On the First Sunny Warm Day if Your British

Have a spontaneous bar-b-que.

and it was glorious, so lovely and warm an absolute treat.

Prior to this I was in the greenhouse 

 

 where the tomatoes that where planted on Valentines Day have hardly grown.

 

The Bougainvillea has decided to flower. 
 

I have potted up the bananas, so fingers crossed this cold spell does not last much longer. 

My onions are in and fleeced. You can see K who is busily planting some early salad leaves under a cloche and hubby preparing the bar-b-que.

When we where busy in the greehouse my daft dog was doing some climbing. He does like to be with us but hates being cold.

I think he decided he needed to be up in the sunshine.

He sat there quite happily  in the sunshine till we went back up the garden.

Hopefully we will have another sunny day tomorrow when we can do some more.