The grass is riz

 Hmmm... still "must try harder" at this blogging lark!  (Though of course one of the reasons that I didn't blog last weekend was because I was visiting my parents rather than writing to them). Meanwhile, spring has started to spring round here. The photo above, the view from our living room, is in stark contrast to the weather a less than a month ago, when the green was covered in snow. As you can see if you look closely enough, there are a few clumps of daffodils springing through under the trees.

 My daffodils are coming through too. Although I told Mum earlier today there were no buds on them yet, as you can see the one front left does have the very start of a flower, so there's hope yet. I planted them in quite military rows in the pots, but unfortunately my local squirrels have a real habit of digging in my pots, so I think I've lost a few bubs and all my symmetry. Oh well, I'm sure no one will really notice once they come out in all their golden trumpetyness.

It turns out that our neighbourhood is positively daffodillic. We only moved here in May, so had no idea quite how many bulbs were hiding under the grass ready to pop out. I've planted some in the autumn in our front bed, which is just across the road from this lot and may, therefore, be a little upstaged. However, the world can't have too many daffodils in my opinion, and they may be different varieties (I can't actually remember what mine are meant to look like).

As you can see though, none of them actually have any flowers yet. I was surprised when I was home in Edinburgh at the weekend, to see that the spring flowers there seemed ahead of the ones here, but apparently this has been caused by the very cold snap we had which put them on hold. At least I didn't organise a whole festival around my display:

http://www.bavmedia.com/bavmedia/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205:daffodil-festival-without-the-daffs&catid=19:nature&Itemid=114

Although, I imagine they've planted more than 30 bulbs. A little ploy for next year, perhaps.