Spring in the garden

Hellebores watercolour

On Saturday it was garden weeding day.

Hellebores from the garden

Henk was doing the hard work, chain sawing in the paddock the tree he felled last weekend and working on our new garden beds.

Only a few weeks away and we can plant the first seed potatoes and I can sow peas and carrots.

We still get heavy frosts some night, so I have to be patient sowing directly into the soil.

I have already started sowing under glass, mostly flowers for the summer garden.

This year I want to grow more cut flowers for my posies I sell at my plant stall outside the gate.

While I was weeding I noticed the Hellebores, each winter they flower very quietly under shrubs and their flower heads are tucked away between the leaves.

I love Hellebores, the colours are so delicate and I have purple and green Hellebores in my garden.
They don't last long in the vase inside, so I picked a few and painted a little watercolour to make into a card.

In the afternoon I took Ollie, my dog for a walk and I noticed the first Spring lambs in the paddocks and  I also took a photograph of Somerset Cob Cottage that was build around 1860 and it housed a family with 11 children!
Now it is a little museum.

Every Sunday I take part in Sunday Sketches.

Somerset Cob Cottage