After the dreariest, wettest winter I have ever seen, it was a delight today to experience some lovely, warm spring sunshine and enjoy the many early flowers bursting into colourful life all around. The garden sustained some significant damage in the fearsome storms of December and January - including the loss of my honeysuckle arch and it would appear the honeysuckle itself - so it was especially heartening to see the primroses, pansies, daffodils, and hellebore below blooming apparently unscathed after the winter deluge.
I'm afraid I have been driven to apply slug pellets, visible in some of these pictures. The slugs have already begun their savage attack upon the fresh new flowers and leaves and the pellets were the only weapon I had to hand. I will be ordering slug nematodes this week and intend to apply wool pellets this summer.
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