Happy New Year. I've never been able to get too excited over New Year's celebrations. Last year was yesterday. So much can happen in a day. For me it is the changing seasons which brings joy and inspiration.
As I sit at home, on this first day of 2012, watching the birds selectively pick out their favourite seeds, I wonder what the Spring holds. They say that this is the best time to plan your gardening activities, browse through the seed catalogues, list various must do tasks. What is top of the list for me is to lift and separate my many thousand snowdrops after they have covered the lawn in their nodding white bell flowers. Most of mine are the double form with flecks of green on the petals. Lifting and splitting the clumps is always a messy job but best to do it 'in the green'. Flowers have finished and green foliage remains.
Sadly, I never got around to doing my tulip bulbs for their Spring display. Maybe last year's will offer some level of colour. However, I'll take this opportunity to plant some lily bulbs for the Summer. For the time being that is enough armchair gardening. I'll return to watching the coal tits and great tits pick out the sunflower seeds and dump the cheap millet onto the ground for the local robins and pheasant to clean up.
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