In an English Country Garden

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Aquilegia, one of my favourite garden flowers



Too early for flowers yet, but isn't my lupin looking strong? Growing in gravel is keeping it safe from slugs (so far!)



bleeding hearts...



No idea at all what this is going to be. I let my wildflowers self seed, but this is new this spring and getting bigger each day!



Even the pond has started flowering:



and of course - look how my tadpoles are "blooming"!

Etta relaxes in the garden before the Giveaway

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My frog spawn is hatching!

There is probably a square yard of spawn, with little gangs of tiny taddies in between. Click on the pics to enlarge. Not the easiest of things to snap, but can you see their teeny tiny gills?

My garden (an apology)

I was chatting with Karrita the other day ( Mymothersgarden.etsy.com ) and said I didn't really have a garden, it was mostly gravel.

Afterwards, I thought "Eeek, I hope the garden didn't hear me!"



Because actually, I love my garden. It is mostly gravel on purpose, because my hay fever has been a lot easier to bear without a lawn to cut!



We have quite a few pots with various plants in (no, don't ask me to name them) and I've also broadcast handfulls of seed, and allowed plants to self seed where they will. We have lots of aquilegia and foxgloves coming up.


I know these ones (above)! They're snakeshead fritillaries, and look lovely fluttering about in the breeze.


And this is a little acer, chosen to contrast with the smoky blue grey fence.



Last but not least, I love my pond, where the tadpoles are growing bigger every day.

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