There's not much happening in the garden at the moment. January isn't really a good month to do any gardening and with all the rain we have had which has made the garden very soggy it's best to leave well alone.
I have been keeping the bird feeders topped up with seed and fat balls. Last weekend I thought I would do the
RSPB Garden Birdwatch. When we moved here two and a half years ago there weren't any birds visiting the garden, but with no trees, shrubs or plants of any description it wasn't surprising that all the birds bypassed our garden. Now we have a lovely garden full of plants to attract the wildlife and we love to watch the birds. Most of our regular birds, however decided not to visit us in the hour I chose to watch out for them. In a short space of about ten minutes there was a sudden flurry of activity on the bird table and I managed to count three woodpigeons and fourteen starlings. There was no sign of the robin, the blue tits, sparrows and blackbirds.
I still have some hyacinths in the shed which I potted up in the autumn. They stay cool in the shed so I can bring them in to the house gradually.
Last year I bought some snowdrops in the green and planted them around the garden late February so I have been looking forward to seeing them in flower this year. I enjoy wandering around the garden spotting them coming into flower. 100 snowdrops seemed a lot at the time of buying them but they don't go very far and it will be several years before we can see lovely clumps of them. I will just have to enjoy seeing them in other people's gardens.
I recently bought some pots of crocus from the garden centre and also found some pots of mini daffodils down the side of the house left from last year. So I had a pleasant hour on a fine, dry day last weekend planting these up in a border in the side garden. I will be able to see these from the house so hopefully they will provide a bit of colour in a few weeks time.
I am linking this post to Sarah's blog at
'Down by the Sea' for her monthly
'Through the Garden Gate' post.
