Garden Bears' World - A Sunny Day in the Garden

Hello everyone!  It's Garden Bears' World time with me, Endon Bear, and all my pals.

Just before the current spell of very chilly weather started, we bears had a morning playing in the garden.  This was the first time we had been able to take little Waverley outside without wrapping him up in his thermal sock.

We started with a run right down the long garden path to the woodland garden we had helped to replant in the summer.  Here we found clumps of snowdrops poking through between our foxglove plants.  Waverley thought it was lovely.

After doing some climbing in the lilac bushes and sniffing to see if there was a hedgehog hibernating in the den we made (sadly, we don't think there is), we ran half way up the path to the greenhouse.  All pushing together, we could just get the door open far enough to squeeze in, so I could show the other bears the plants for the front garden bed and some other plants being grown from cuttings.

There are heucheras, pineapple sage, roses, dogwood and figs.  I'm not sure which ones have rooted yet but I hope they all will.  We also looked at the nasturtium seeds I have collected and dried, ready for sowing in the spring.

After sneaking back out of the greenhouse and closing the door, we went to explore the flower beds.  The hellebores are all coming into flower now and look very pretty, and Waverley found the first primrose in flower, under the roses.

Just behind the rose bed is the Witch Hazel bush.  I was very keen to show the other that, as it is the brightest thing in the whole garden at the moment and looked glorious with the sun shining through its little yellow flowers.

'It's great for climbing as well,' I said, scrambling up the trunk and into the branches.  'There are lots of twigs to hold on to, and the flowers have a nice smell too!'

Soon, we had all climbed up into the shrub and were enjoying the sunshine.

Didn't Polar laugh when she came out into the garden and saw us all up in the branches!

'Who wants to help in the greenhouse?' she asked.

This time, she meant the lean-to greenhouse on the back of the house, where the plants that need to be kept a little bit warmer live during the winter.

Polar's geraniums are all coming into flower again and, when it is a little bit warmer, we will take some cuttings from them, but today she was sowing more broad beans.

We were pleased to see the lettuce doing well and, under a plastic fruit box cover, my very old rocket seed from 2015 had germinated!

Even on a cold day, the greenhouse is warm and always has a lovely smell of fresh compost and growing things!  We decided to stay in there and chat to eat other for a little while, before having another run on the lawn before lunch.

We are very lucky bears to have such a nice garden to play in, especially when we can't travel very far for walks and adventures just now.  We hope you enjoy seeing our garden and reading about the plants we grow, and we hope to see you soon for another Garden Bears' World.