Pets in the Garden, More Crocuses and Plum Blossom

 Spring is in the air and the pets are enjoying the garden. Rob and I take a daily walk around, noticing the changes and new plants appearing.

 

Russian Comfrey. We have a big patch of this at the foot of an evergreen bush and hazel tree. The flowers appear very early in the year (February), before there are any insects to enjoy them. It makes a good ground cover plant, and doesn't mind a shady spot.

Our senior pup, Brock, now 12 years old.

Minnow cat is 9 years old, and not in the mood for being photographed today.

The perfect blossoms of the wild plum tree. It produces little yellow plums later in the year, which are rather bland-tasting, but make good fruit crumble or jam.

The crocuses continue to add colour. We even saw our first two bumble bees on these flowers today, even though it got very cold in the shade. Rob administered some sugary syrup to one poor bee that had become almost comatose. It hungrily sucked it up.