The FD 52 week challenge 2013

[4wd]

Almost missed this week, it is a wonderful feeling when lambing is over even with just a few.
I keep meaning to get some snowdrop shots since they are just at their best now.

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Not going to win any prizes, but just glad to see they've 'taken' considering how late they were going in.
I'm sure there wouldn't have only been 2 bulbs as I tend to group, but 2 are flowering next to a young piece of lavender anyway

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A few more garden 'snaps' this afternoon

peony poking red shoots through




couple of species crocus




a few mixed things including summer? iris




primroses still in a trough since I bought them last year plus 3 little wild type cyclamen also awaiting proper planting.

[cornishwelsh]

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The high yielding group giong for there run around this morn first whent out last tues

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Empty shed with out cows for couple hrs while i clean up

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Being geting the drive ready this wk for the tarmacking gang to come in

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The low yielding group they have been giong out for 2wks now

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Finally got around to puting Wendy's 50th birthday present up being waiting for some dry weather since november
So hopefully this will stop me geting ear ache for a dat or two

[genuinerisk]

Oh, cracking photos, c/w - definitely spring down with you! Sun has managed to get through clouds now and it really is a proper early spring morning with that special spring haze you only get at this time of year!

[bopeep]

Your cows look very content CW.I wish we had grass like yours,our grass on Salisbury Plain has not started grownig yet.

[jackladd]

Mar 4, 2013 11:40:42 GMT cornishwelsh said:

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The high yielding group giong for there run around this morn first whent out last tues

Soooo jealous!
Getting them out marks the promise of summer - it's usually sometime April for us!

Oh wait! I've just remembered the down side of the cows being out - milking with 'grass muck' squirting all over!

[bopeep]

20 years ago used to milk 250 in a herringbone,I wore a shower cap until cow's digestions settled down

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I love crocuses in the sunshine - taken on Tues afternoon after the mist cleared.

[colliemaid]

nest


males are in protective mode



coming though



ewe lamb waiting for her breakfast



one for you joyce my billy ,

[rgsp]

A few more piccies taken today in the drizzle.

All is peaceful in the lambing yard, and the lambs are looking a good deal more robust than they did a week ago.


Even the little one is growing well and doesn't look a bad lamb at all


And in the other bit of the yard, someone had better get on with it, or we'll have to try a comedy routine, like letting the dog in to see her.


And you too madam!


Outside, the dark blue, self-sown Crocus Thomasianus' are popping up well.


And the pots of this year's pot-planted mixed crocuses and irises are nearing their peak.


Whereas these Iris Histriodes have been making up for several years, and are getting a bit overcrowded, with the clump due for splitting, but still worth having even though it is a bit over-the-top now.


I think this is one of the newer hybrid Heleborus Orientalis types, and it forms a nice solid mound of plant, with the flowers held high enough to see properly, unlike older helebores, particularly nigra types.


The prize for helebores has to go to this one though, which has only been planted for two years (they take some while to settle in) and is quite small, and furthermore is looking a bit tired and tatty. However, it has had those spectacular large white flowers for over 5 weeks now.