Yes, a late Spring

It is funny not to have daffodils in flower by now.  They are still a long way off but the snowdrops are doing their usual charming thing and the Crocus tommasinianus are standing straight on the lawn.  They look a bit lost there as the leaves are like grass so they are a bit like naked ladies (Colchicum) in minature.  I am pruning roses whenever I get a few minutes of dry weather and between plant moving jobs - like transplanting the Rosa persetosa to the lower driveway.  It is time to be propagating again for the Treborth Plant Sale so anything  that is spare goes in a pot for flogging in April.  The Lenten roses (Helleborus X orientalis) are truly Lenten this year for a change and I did a rare job of protecting the flower stems of our favourite, and expensive, specimen.  The mice are bound to find something else nice to eat.  The early Bodnant hybrid rhododendron, R X cilpinense is opening bang on time so it must be cued by daylength.