Not much happening – and most of it yellow.

That’s been my general verdict on this month’s flowers: though tinged with a great deal of relief that our ‘false spring’ in the unseasonable warmth of a couple of months ago hasn’t, after all, kiboshed the real one.

Was there ever such a spring-like colour as yellow? It shines out at you wherever you look: gleams and sparkles and cheers the soul. Perhaps that’s why it’s so much more welcome at this time of year than, say, in mid-summer when yellow flowers just seem brash: after all, we all need a bit of cheering up after the winter.

So now is the time of the spring bulb: there isn’t much else peeping out just yet. But bulbs, above all, should have the place more or less to themselves anyway: that way you can admire them without distraction, to your heart’s content.

Some of the hosts of golden daffodils cheering up the slope at the back of the garden at the moment

Ranunculus ficaria

Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’

Another mystery daffodil: could be ‘Jetfire’?

Chionodoxa forbesiae (I think: lost the label. Again.)

…and the flower buds of the same: almost as exquisite as the flowers themselves

Primula vulgaris

Mahonia japonica

Leucojum vernum

Narcissus ‘February Gold’

Viola odorata

Eranthis hyemalis

Muscari armeniacum

Crocus tommasinianus

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens – thanks Carol!