With a spell of a couple of days of warmer weather recently, the days are beginning to feel more like spring than winter. We are still firmly in winter until the 20th of March, but I think many will agree that winter is making a way out with an spring feeling as the days are getting longer and less chilly. Snowdrops started to make their appearance a little over a month ago, and crocuses followed by peeking their heads out three weeks ago and are curently in their prime. While it is slightly early for daffodils, they have also started to bloom in the last week too.
Eastcote House Gardens has become one of my favourite places to visit, though it has been getting particularly busy in the past week. I captured the below photograph of primroses at the end of January. There were a few different colours.
Over the course of the past few weeks, I have been documenting the beautiful snowdrops that are planted in the grounds of Eastcote House.
The crocuses started to make an appearance at the end of January/beginning of February.
The spring bloosoms have started to make an appearance recently too.
Now, the crocuses are out in their prime and enjoying the full sun that we have had over the past few days. There is a cluster of them at Eastcote House Gardens and a whole bank full of them along the road in the grounds of Eastcote Cricket Club.
It is slightly early for daffodils, my favourite spring flower, but a few of them have decided to bloom in the past week as well.
I am really looking forward to spring. It has been a very long winter and a very long year in general, and being stuck at home and in the middle of the lockdown has been far from easy. It's worse when the days are short and cloudy. The sun has always made a lot of difference to me; I think most people feel happier when they see the sun.
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