A lovely day visiting my old haunt, @ntdunhammassey and it was wonderful to see so many friendly faces. The winter garden is still looking spectacular and there's so many lovely things on their way. Do visit if you can. #ukgardening #dunhammassey #nationaltrust #wintergarden #happyplace

1/2 Rhedwr ar daith. Dw i wedi parhau i redeg ar ôl graddio. Runner on tour. I've continued running after graduation last week. I'm currently in Todmorden, having been to see Cardiacs in Manchester last night. #running #couchto5k #dysgucymraeg #rhedeg

Well, that was a bit good. Cardiacs at Albert Hall Manchester. #cardiacs #jim #whoishim

1/2 Look at this amazing book! Still being inspired by the grafting course last Saturday & there was a copy at Tom's. Welsh Marches Pomona from the Marcher Apple Network with lots of in depth descriptions of local apples #apple #marcherapplenetwork #applegrafting #ukgardening #breathofthegreyking

1/2 Ramping fumitory! No, I'm not cross, although I could have done without the soaking this afternoon. It's this lovely little native wildflower Fumaria capreolata. Or its rather lovely Welsh name... #wildflowers #wildflowersnotweeds #springiscoming #ukgardening

1/2 Head in the clouds again today, in a very real and dismal way. I couldn't see further than the next field. Still, there was a perk in the form of some wonderful young, fresh rhubarb. Also, one of my grafted apple trees... #growyourown #kitchengarden #orchard #headintheclouds #ukgardening

1/2 Happy International Women's Day! I know so many incredible, strong, capable, wonderful women, it feels sometimes that their hard and painfully won equality is the norm. But I know for a far too large proportion of the world's women that isn't the case, not even close. #i̇nternationalwomensday

1/2 An absolutely fascinating day learning to graft with @tomtheappleman on his fruit tree nursery in Shropshire (just). I was so engrossed I didn't take any photographs of the process, but I came away with three grafted apple... #treegrafting #appletrees #growyourown #orchard #ukgardening

1/2 It was cold and wet this morning, but it wasn't actually raining on me. So today you get flowers. Wet flowers. A strange and wonderful Euphorbia. Two Pulmonaria, I'm not sure if they are different varieties... #springiscoming #spring #flowers #leaves #ukgardening

Mi wnes i fo! Dw i wedi graddio 'Couch to 5k'! Dwi'n mynd i barhau y rhedeg tair waith y wythnos. I did it! I graduated Couch to 5k! I'm going to continue running three times a week. #couchto5k #running #dysgucymraeg #rhedeg

The chimney pots of Dolgellau proving that, unlike Kia-Ora, they're not too orangey for corvids (jackdaws, not crows). I'm soaked again and fed up. It was such a lovely morning, but this afternoon was horrid, so no flowers, just corvids and wet me. #rainyday #isspringcoming #corvids #jackdaws

1/2 Glorious sunshine and the flowering continues. Bumblebee on pussy willow. Hop bines making a rapid ascent. A puff of sweet cicely blooms. #sunnyday #springiscoming #flowers #ukgardening #thegardenofjanedelawney

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1/3 Well, today was lovely. It couldn't have been more different to yesterday's deluge. Spring's approach is heralded all the more loudly by bright, shining floral halos. Daisies.. #ukgardening #springiscoming #spring #springflowers #sunnyday #springiscoming #spring #springflowers #sunnyday

Oh dear. What a miserable, sogsome start to the week. Although there's supposed to be some warm and sunny later in the week. There were Forsythia buds starting to yellow and bloom, and a Primula denticulata about to push up a drumstick. #rainyday #springiscoming #springflowers #ukgardening

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David's Day! Narcissus 'Minnow' in a pot in the front garden yesterday, when it was sunny. #dyddgŵyldewihapus #happystdavidsday #ceninpedr #daffodils #Cymru

1/3 Sunshine! Flowers! Gardening! What a beautiful day. It felt very springy. Although I know we're in Fool's Spring and it'll probably snow again soon. I had a mostly free day and I was able to do some bits in my own garden. #ukgardening #sunnyday #springiscoming #growyourown #kitchengarden

Dw i wedi gorffen y 8fed wythnos o 'Couch to 5k'. Dw i wedi blino ond dw i'n teimlo da iawn. 28 mined o redeg! I've finished week 8 of Couch to 5k. I'm tired but feeling good. 28 minutes of running. Bouyed up and hopeful about the news from Manchester. #couchto5k #running #dysgucymraeg #rhedeg

Oh, all you beautiful people. Well done, Gorton and Denton! What an amazing and resounding victory. I'm so, so happy to wake up to this.

Sometimes you have to accept you just can't. After a morning's soaking from progressively heavier rain, and getting home for lunch to this, even I had to concede it wasn't a good idea to attempt to work this afternoon. I'm currently drying off. #rainyday #badweather #ukgardening #toowettowork

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C'mon Manchester. Be amazing again. You're so good at it! Good luck Hannah Spencer and the Green Party!

I've just booked on a fruit tree grafting course. I'll come away with three grafted apple trees. That's exciting. #ukgardening #fruittrees #grafting #cpd

Yellow, yellow daffodils in the blue, blue sky. It's raining again now, but it was nice while it lasted. Close inspection by my supervisor today. Double daffodils! #ukgardening #daffodils #standwithukraine #slavaukraini #gotanyworms

1/2 What's that bright thing in the sky? It's all warm and delightful. I think I like it! I won't take it for granted just yet, but it was a pleasant sight after the unrelenting drear. It made a dark day a little bit more hopeful. #standwithukraine #slavaukraini #ukraine #ukgardening #sunnyday

1/2 It's four years today since the full scale invasion of Ukraine, it's all the more important to continue to stand with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Write to your MP, raise money for, or donate to organisations that help Ukrainians... #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #russiaisaterroriststate

1/2 More stirrings as the days lengthen and the chill recedes. Feathery fresh rose leaves, yet to fill out with chlorophyll, hence the red tinge. New Hydrangea leaves, like shield bugs, or a strange dinosaur. #ukgardening #springiscoming #burgeoning #newgrowth

Tomorrow everyone will be asking: when will the Russo-Ukrainian war end? The right question is: what can we do to make the Russian invasion fail?

Bulb pots update. Lots of Narcissi and Iris blooming now, Muscari on the way. The pots I planted up very late (only a few weeks ago) are catching up. #ukgardening #springbulbs #bulblasagne #bulbs #containergardening

1/2 A daytrip to Llangollen to celebrate Miss Willow's latest orbit around the sun. It included the most enormous second hand book shop, entry to which is gained via an Italian restaurant. A taxidermists (closed, we looked through the window). A Ukrainian/Georgian bakery/cafe. Slava Ukraini!

It's amazing the things you find if you keep your eyes open. Magical Jay Feather. Only a small, glorious sky-blue flash on the wing, so to find one is lucky indeed. #ukbirds #jay #jayfeather #magical #garrulusglandarius

Dw i wedi gorffen y seithfed wythnos o 'Couch to 5k'. Pump ar hugain mined o redeg eto. I've finished week seven of Couch to 5k. Twenty five minutes of running three times this week. Two weeks to go. #running #couchto5k #dysgucymraeg #rhedeg

I absolutely love his works and want you to see them too. Ukrainian art deserves to be heard louder. 🇺🇦 Dmytro Nahurnyi (1946–2019)

1/3 Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pairs of boots. They're the same boots. Only 21 months of everything a garden can throw at them between them. It had to be done, there were holes everywhere... #ukgardening #springiscoming #viewfromtheoffice #buds #newgrowth

1/2 Stirrings. The sap is beginning to rise. Although with today's freezing wind and a weather warning for snow overnight in Dolgellau, they might be better off waiting a little while. Hop (Humulus lupulus) bines starting their inexorable rise. #springiscoming #burgeoning #saprising #buds

Oh, yes. It's THAT Tuesday isn't it.

Pond maintenance or nightmare fuel? You decide. #ukgardening #waders #pondmaintenance #pond #itsbloodyfreezing

1/2 Rhubarb's back. I almost remembered to take a before and after. It's a halfway through and after tidying up a strawberry bed. Cutting back old and dead leaves, thinning out runners, #ukgardening #growyourown #kitchengarden #fruitbushes #propogation

Making sushi on a Sunday. Leek and smoked tofu below. Red pepper and omelette above. #sushi #Sunday #sushisunday #weekend #yum

1/2 Sow far. Sow good. The co-option of every available surface and space for the growing of plants has begun. A very different day from yesterday so I sowed outside. A second batch of sweet peas. #ukgardening #seedsowing #growyourown #kitchengarden #containergardening

Cold, soaking wet rain this morning. It's been so rainy of late, it feels like 120 days of sodden. I also appreciate and I'm deeply grateful that I can go home to warm, dry clothes and hot food and drink. I wish everyone in the world was that lucky. #gardening #gardener #rainyday

Dyna ni! Dw i wedi gorffen y chweched wythnos o Couch to 5k. Mi wnes i rhedeg i bump ar hugain mined! There we go. I've finished week six of Couch to 5k. I ran for twenty five minutes! #couchto5k #running #dysgucymraeg #rhedeg

There's some wonderful Hellebores around at the moment. I do love the dark ones. This perfect, blushing double Camellia also caught my eye. Whilst the rain left jewels in the branches of this maple. #ukgardening #flowers #blodau #rainyday

A rainy, foggy day. The Mawddach estuary is still beautiful, mind. More flowers emerging. Moistened daffodils and Viburnum tinus. Of course, it cleared up just as I soggily finished work for the day. #rainyday #poface #flowers #viewfromtheoffice #ukgardening

I think that's about as good a close-up photograph of a snowdrop as I can get. Pretty, aren't they. The cleavers (or goosegrass, or sticky willy, or Galium aparine) are on the march again. #snowdrops #galanthus #galiumaparine #cleavers #ukgardening

Hello buddies! Crocuses opening, some beautiful colours and patterns. Clematis armandii 'Apple Blossom' is getting ready. Woodbine, honeysuckle, or Lonicera periclymenum if you want to get technical, just starting its little buds off. #ukgardening #flowers #buds #blodau

Cedric: "Oi, Mister. What you doing?" Me: "I'm assembling a pergola." Cedric: "Oh, right... got any worms?" 1/2 #ukgardening #gotanyworms #robingoch #robin #cobblerschildren

Helleborus x hybrida 'Harvington yellow speckled' that was planted last year is flowering for the first time, and it's a beauty! A multitude of Narcissus 'Minnow' now in full bloom, brightening the doorstep. There's a few Iris reticulata peering through. #ukgardening #flowers #winterflowers

Some pretty Cyclamen and a tiny little dog violet under an apple tree. The Wisteria has attachment issues, but I've licked it into shape and given it its winter prune. The view down Cader road from outside the monastery. #ukgardening #flowers #pruning #viewfromtheoffice