Spring in the Air!

So anyone that knows me or reads my blog will know that I adore Springtime, not only is it the season I was born, my son was born and I got married, it also contains an abundant of one of my other most favourite thing - flowers. We have had so much wintery weather lately that today was the first day I actually got that little warm feeling that Spring was on its way. I mean it is the middle of March, its about time!

The birds were out in force singing and looking for nests. In fact a lovely little blue tit couple have definitely taken residence in our bird box today. Most importantly, it wasn't raining and the sun was shining!! So I thought I would take a wander in the garden and see what flowers I could find.

First up is my most favourite flower in the whole wide world, the daffodil. I have masses in my garden, there are bulbs absolutely everywhere. Unfortunately because of the mild January a lot of the daffs came out early and are now nearing their end which makes me sad. There are three reasons I love them so much, the lovely yellow colour, they always 'look' happy (which makes me feel happy) and they are normally in their prime around my birthday at the end of March. I have to accept this will not be the case this year and there were only about 10 left in my garden, here's a few I found...

Looking back, to see early daffodils with late snowdrops back in January / February this year was a unusual but very beautiful sight. Speaking of which, I hunted the garden to see if there were any snowdrops left....and I found two little beauty's tucked away in the undergrowth...

More gorgeousness found in the garden....primroses...

Hyacinths, which actually surprised me as I wasn't aware they had flowered, showed how rubbish our weather had been that I hadn't looked in ages....

 And I love the colour of these hyacinths, I would love to find some yarn this colour. I am always on the search for pretty blues and purples but can never find the right colour....might have to start dyeing my own....

And this little lovely (tbh I'm not sure of the actual name, I'm sure my mother would tell me) was found hidden under our garden table coming out of an old potted plant. My husband spotted it while we were touring, no idea it was there or even that the plant was flowering again. I thought the plant wasn't going to flower again and had seen its better days, so I need to look after this little one...

And the blossom is still looking yummy over my pond...

  Our pond, with my pink fence which I insisted on and that my husband reluctantly painted...

So this little nature walk was giving me inspiration for more makes. Crochet and flowers are the best combination in my book. How gorgeous does my little strawberry look with its primrose friend....

Then of course I had to get my flower coasters out, these were my flower inspirational makes from last year (you will find a blog post all about it - flower coasters). These ones were inspired by marigold, daisy, aster, pansy, forget me not and sweet pea.....

The free pattern for these coasters is available on my blog, (flower coasters pattern) and I am now thinking up more flower / colour combinations!

It felt so lovely to feel the Spring in the air, I even put some washing on the line! My little boy also had a fun day in the garden, he felt the need to sort out the old flower pots from the greenhouse and lined them all up for me ready for planting....I didn't even ask.....

Fingers crossed this means Spring is arriving and we can all look forward to the yummy crochet inspiration it always brings. You can certainly watch this space for that!
Happy hooking
Kelly@lovedotty
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