Plenty of time for gardening ...

... means that for once I'm getting things done.
After a wet few months, not really a winter (as we only had one hard frost that I'm aware of) suddenly it is spring.

On 10th February, a tiny dusting of snow fell.

This was gone in the blink of an eye ...

By the end of the month, we had the usual spring flowers, crocuses, daffodils, hellebores and lungwort.

Then mid March, the first tulip made its appearance, along with the first flowers on the magnolia stellata:

By the end of March, the magnolia looked magnificent:

And then I got into sorting out the compost heaps, which took a few days.

As we are at home, we got on with putting some trellising along our fence where the neighbour's leylandii has died off:

Now it is time to go back into the garden, and get on with weeding and seed sowing ...