How are the flowers doing where you are ?

[WildRosie]

The crocuses appeared in late February and were still around when the daffodils came along. The daffodils here (West Yorkshire) lasted a long time again - first week of March to about last week when some of the later flowering patches went away. Now we have quite a lot of bluebells and forget-me-nots and the planted rose bushes in our front garden are beginning to flower.

The dandelions and daisies are with us all the time!

I have a two phase garden

Raised beds, deep soil, loads of sun: flower tastic. Alliums, phlox, erigeron, astrantia, convulvulus and some others I can’t remember. Anything grows here.

Low narrow beds around lawn, shaded and full of bloody snails: nowt. One (!) tulip, now over. Foxgloves maybe flowering in a few days, if the snails don’t get them first. I’m giving up and planting ferns.

London by the way

I'm in London. Daffodils all finished a while ago, bluebells pretty much over now, allium triquetum still around but on the way out. I walk past a kind of wildflower area beside the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead every week and notice what's happening there: there were oxeye daisies out today. In gardens, quite a lot of roses, summer jasmine, chaenomeles, weigela. In our garden, the campanulas are just starting to flower (the tall upright ones with long thin leaves, also thalictrum and astrantia. But it's not really very warm!

Ha @minipie I spent hours in the garden today and engaged in mass slaughter of snails!

Not too warm up north either, yet the bluebells are a little earlier than usual. The weather has been drier than normal as well; maybe a little rain would make a difference.

Where I work, you can smell the wild rose bushes when it's been raining. A faint aroma, but definitely there.

Apparently, some wild birds and chickens like snails and slugs.

It's been raining tonight. Stand by for rampant marigolds and foxglove!