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It's the spring equinox ...

... had to go for a walk in Wandsworth Park as my back had seized up lifting something into a cupboard then sitting in an awkward position accommodating a sleeping cat on my lap while I watched 24 hour news yesterday... don't worry I kept my antisocial distance from joggers, dog walkers, parents amusing children, pram pushers, etc. A nice host of daffodils and the trees are blooming as the crow flies 🙂https://flic.kr/s/aHsmM55kHX
Sad to see this, though. I suppose it's the same mindset as those who hoard loo rolls ☹https://flic.kr/s/aHsmM5bnGw
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Michael Ixer ● 2427d10 Comments

Lovely photos Michael. The daffs and the magnolia trees look really beautiful, but it's such a shame that some brain-dead morons desecrate the park time and time again.

Sue Hammond ● 2427d

"my back had seized up lifting something into a cupboard then sitting in an awkward position"Obviously not a big box of loo rolls then. Thanks very much for the park photos.

David Ainsworth ● 2427d

Thank you for the lovely photos.  I've now cracked how to open your blue links on the iphone!  There's always more to learn.I have some shrub honeysuckle flowering in the garden - a fairly boring bush I nearly got rid of but have learnt to love.  It keeps its leaves or most of them over the winter and grows well and has lovely bright green new leaves now with the wonderful lemony smelling flowers.  It's a joy to watch the bumble bees visiting.  They love it too.  Next to it is a camellia planted so that I can enjoy it from the kitchen window when it is too cold to go out and that is covered in pink flowers.There is also a shy purple hellebore flowering in a chimney pot sirrounded by campanula leaves and a pink self-sown forget-me-not.  A little bit of the old clematis montana cut back because of having the brickwork re-pointed is thankfully still alive and budding promising some some  flowers.  I still need to attach it to its new trellis so no dripping curtain of pink flowers all around the fence this year but hopefully - next.

Philippa Bond ● 2427d

It is a huge shame that the shameless few steal plants put there by volunteers to create a pleasant and quiet corner for park users. I hope the Friends of Wandsworth Park stick at it - they have the support of all of us!

Jonathan Callaway ● 2427d

Lovely to see the garden come back to life in Spring, but best of all the tulips start to bloom.  Beautiful, simple and elegant, just perfection.

Martine Guy ● 2427d

Yes absolutely - like seeing old friends again.  I too love tulips especially when they appear like a close knit small family group having multiplied - some tall and some shorter.  I also love grape hyacinths - they'll never be considered invasive by me.  They make me smile when I see them making their escape across a path and out of a garden.  A fiercely independent very elderly friend - an ex JP - felt the same and referred to them as 'those little b@ggers'.Very disappointing when gardens are vandalised snd I too hope that community groups who make the effort to improve areas for everyone have the strength to keep going.  As usual it is the miserable few who try snd ruin things for the majority.

Philippa Bond ● 2427d

Stormy skies over East Putney this afternoon ...https://flic.kr/p/2iG3Wmn

Michael Ixer ● 2426d

Philippa, clematis montana is such a brute it's impossible to kill! Personally I like it though. I've noticed that aside from the daffs in my  pots I also have a pink camelia starting to bloom and  the forsythia I planted last year is looking healthy. Cyclamen (one of my favourites) are carrying on happily and  the hydrangea is especially happy with the wet winter we've had.Just ordered some summer bulbs too!

Lucille Grant ● 2426d

David. Perhaps there lies the solution to loo roll grabbing in supermarkets: replace the cardboard tube with lead? Or, better still, uranium; they'd want to avoid the critical mass of loo rolls!

Michael Ixer ● 2426d

Smashing photo.  Also had a good laugh at your aliens with their new found currency.

Philippa Bond ● 2426d