When’s the most exciting time in the garden?

Just like I constantly change my mind on which is my favourite flower in the garden. Depending on which ones are flowering at that moment!

Deciding when the most exciting time in the garden is, changes continuously throughout the year!

Tomatoes. Is the best sowing, planting, nurturing or eating?

Take right now, as I start to sow my tomato seeds. This feels like the most exciting job. Especially having done very little gardening since the autumn.

I simply can’t wait for the gardening year to begin!

Tapping out those tiny little seeds into your hand, and placing them carefully on the compost. It’s a lovely job that I can’t wait to do.

It’s hard to believe that they are going to germinate, and turn into healthy productive plants. All that promise! So exciting!

Of course give me a few weeks and I’ll be saying, the seeds germinating is the most exciting thing in gardening. No it’s definitely, pricking the seeds out. Or maybe the wonderful day of planting them in the ground. Possibly the first flowers. Seeing your first fruit?

No it’s absolutely eating your first tomato. Now that has to be everybody’s most exciting day of the veg gardening year. Or is it?

Strawberry time?

Maybe strawberries are your thing. There’s certainly no comparison, between those red things they call strawberries in the supermarket and homegrown.

Whether its the wild strawberries or the cultivated varieties. That first strawberry of the year, takes some beating!

Frogs in the pond. Spawning, wriggly tadpoles or baby frogs?

When it comes to the pond, I do get rather over excited!

Is the most enjoyable day, when they spawn? I certainly sat out there watching them until I nearly froze to death, last February! Or when the frogspawn starts to wriggle, super exciting. They’re alive!

Seeing the first baby froglet on a lily pad? Or realising that three little frogs have taken up residence in the greenhouse. All of the above really.

Best time for flowers. Winter, spring or summer?

Late Winter?

The excitement as the snowdrops, peep through the cold soil. The first flowers of the year, how welcome they are! Then the colours start to appear, from the crocus, primulas and hellebores. You’re so desperate for colour to be back in the garden. These are the best flowers!

Spring?

Or maybe it’s spring, when we rediscover what real colour is again. The daffodils, tulips and rhododendrons, knock are socks off. Surely these are best?

Early Summer?

But then the early summer flowers appear, Alliums, Campanulas, Helianthemum, Jacobs ladder, Red hot pokers and Roses. Now the garden’s really filling up, and the foliage is all so fresh and perfect.

It’s even warm enough to sit out and enjoy it, surely this is the best time.

Late Summer?

Or late summer, the grand finally? An explosion of colour, the boarders are full to bursting. The lavender bed is maxed out with bees, humming happily in the sunshine, and butterflies drinking up the nectar.

It’s sometimes even warm enough to eat breakfast outside!