Everything comes ...

It's been a long wait to see Narcissus nobilis flower.   Seed sown in 2010, collected in the Pyrenees by Henry & Margaret Taylor, eminent Scottish alpine plant experts extraordinaire and co-authors of an AGS publication, Mountain Flower walks in the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa.   My few little bulbs languished in a pot for many years, only slowly growing bigger.   The move to Wales offered much more suitable garden conditions than in the sandy Norfolk garden so I planted them out early autumn 2020.   Hopefully it's onwards and upwards from here, I love the bicolor flowers, very similar to a narcissus that grew in my family's London garden fifty years ago when I was a boy.

A work day.   An unexpectedly busy one given that Easter is two weeks away and the weather was rubbish.   Covid is a problem among the Tywyn based staff at the moment, as the infection rates everywhere are so high.   We're all aware that any one of us might be next and thankfully the railway has a good stock of tests to help us minimise our risk.   Being so busy so early in the season, even the orders that I received last Friday are rapidly being exhausted - who knew that the world ate so much cake!!    I may be baking tomorrow as we cannot get a delivery quickly enough.