23rd May one week later

 I am not able to get on here to blog as much as I would like to, I do not believe it has been a week already. The garden is looking very colourful,  the flowers seem to be catching up fast, in spite of the inclement weather we have been experiencing here in Norfolk, we seem to be about a month behind with the weather, we are getting April showers and March winds in May. Floral development and the cycle of life continues apace, our beautiful Tree Peony has come back into full bloom and we have pretty pink Clematis flowers climbing on the back fence. There are Forget-me-nots all over the borders and we have Wallflowers, Irises Primulas and Daisies intermingling.
I have re-pointed and filled in all the cracks between the stones on our patio, I bought a labour saving bag of ready mixed patio grout from Homebase and I am very pleased with the results.

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Our magnificent Tree Peony Flowers.

Digging in the goodness~

The allotment is now keeping me very busy in the early mornings, late Spring is the peak time for making sure all the small plants and seedlings get bedded in. My second early potatoes are doing very well and looking very healthy. The first early bed of potatoes is very patchy, some of the plants are very advanced while some are not showing through the topsoil at all. 
  I planted some Celeriac plants and I am now busy preparing the beds for the Brassica plants. I have Cabbages, Sprouts, Kale, Sprouting Broccolli  and Calabrese Broccolli all growing from seed and I intend to fill two beds.
 I will have to net my strawberry plants, to protect the fruit from the attentions of my my avian friends, there is a particular blackbird who is obviously raising young in the area somewhere,  always pecking around as I work.

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Sunrise on the allotments