Spring

This has been an amazing spring. We've had virtually no rain for 2 months -  in March there was 3mm of rain at the Botanic garden - 1/10th of the average March rainfall since 1848. That hasn't stopped the trees from budding, blooming and shooting- it's been a delight everyday. Can it be so much more beautiful than last year? It feels that way.

Apple tree on Adams Road, 9th April

 

Unknown tree on Grange road, April 9th

Pine tree on the allotment, shortly before we cut off the lower branches, 30th April.

 Winter jasmine flowering in the churchyard of Little St Mary's 20th March.

Now there is so much pollen in the air and so little rain, that the cars parked in the streets all look completly dusty with yellow pollen - normal in a big city, where it would be dust, but it looks very strange here.