The nice weather this week means that I have been able to spend some time in the garden. I have spent most of the time moving things about and repotting plants. It is still hard to see the difference, but there are changes afoot in the garden.

These lovely catkins are from a couple of weeks ago, on my Webb’s Prize Cobnuts:


Catkins

Catkins are the male flowers of hazels; the female flowers are hard to spot in comparison – they’re just tiny red tufts:


Tufts

Other tiny splashes of red in the garden come from the ladybirds, which are just starting to emerge. This one is a native British seven spot ladybird:


Ladybird