As I walked out …

I hope I am not becoming as doleful as Laurie Lee, but I suspect like me, you are waiting for – even hoping for, a bit more sun and a more evidence of warm days.

So I thought I would at least try to cheer the drooping spirits by including in this week’s blog some of the pictures I captured simply walking round our garden, as well as some of the panels of pictures I took some time ago in slightly more prolific gardens.

I had to put that in case someone spotted the shots with trees in them. It would only lead to accusatory emails saying “I know you don’t have any of those in ­your garden.”

If I’m honest what we have in our garden at the moment are lots of hedge clippings – its that season again when I attack the hedges round our plot in order to bring in a bit more light and to allow us to see the outside world again. I don’t think I can remember a year when the hedges have grown so much – but perhaps it is that I am becoming smaller in my old age.

I will avoid the trap of labelling the plants that I photographed earlier this week.

Most readers know that my knowledge of the plant world is a bit limited.

I can manage roses, buttercups and brambles, but I can get a bit stuck after that. It is also possible that some of my artistic creations (I may as well say it because none of you will) are not cultivated flowers at all but endemic weeds! I don’t care, I just love their colours.

At the end of the day it is the colour in the garden that really cheers me up.

I hope it makes your weekend a little brighter.