Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell,  Big Yellow Taxi,  this was home.

To this Violet Ground Beetle, adult and larvae eat slugs and snails.

Colts-foot (Tussilago farfara) coming into flower the scaly flower-stalks appear before the leaves,extracts of the plant are tried and tested medicine for coughs and hoarse throats.

Honey bee gathering pollen from peach blossom and pollinating the flower at the same time.

I hope to have plenty of Peaches this year if the bees do their job and i can protect the blossom from frost.

The bees have had a good start this year with plenty of spring flowers and trees full of pollen this tree is one of the tallest Pussy Willows (Salix Capera) i have seen. It`s on site 3 and full of pollen.

The trees that are in blossom around the allotment at the moment are Blackthorn wild plum (prunus spinosa) also known as Sloe.

Some of the plants in flower at the moment. Primula vulgaris sibthorpii.

Primula wanda.

March on the allotment.

The first Frog spawn  laid on Feb29th plenty more to come this is in the pond down the Bottom End.

Its been a warm day lots of insects out Honey bees on the Celandine and Snowdrops.

plus Ladybirds and Bumble bees, not seen any Butterflies yet.