Garden Bears' World - A Spring Day in the Garden

Hello everyone!  It's time for another Garden Bears' World blog from me, Endon Bear, and it's time to see how the spring flowers are blooming.  

A couple of days ago, all four of us went out to enjoy the spring sunshine, including little Waverley.  It was warm enough that he didn't need to snuggle up in his thermal sock, but could run about on the grass with us.

He really loved the bright little snowdrops, which were a good height for him to enjoy.

We've also got some sunny yellow crocus and miniature irises in pots and troughs.  I think the irises are my favourites. 

Sonning's favourite early spring flowers are the hellebores.  In the back garden, we've got white, pink and even slightly greeny ones, while there are some darker pink ones in the front garden.

Waverley liked the greenish hellebore too.  He couldn't get over how many flowers there were on it.  Polar said the plant was probably big enough to split up and replant next autumn.

Hanley and Waverley climbed up to see what was growing in some more of the pots.  Hanley found a heuchera and Waverley found some bright yellow Tete-a-tete daffodils.

Sonning checked on the Daphne Odora, an evergreen, scented shrub Polar has planted in memory of her step-mum, Mrs Pat.  It starts flowering very early in the year, so should be in bloom on Mrs Pat's birthday in January.

Little Waverley thought the scent was very lovely.  He never met Mrs Pat, but we think she would have loved him and given him lots of hugs.

Polar and I had a look at the rose garden patch, which needs some work.  There are a lot of chive seedlings coming up and several of the purple sage plants have died, so we are planning to do some weeding then add some hardy geraniums and other low-growing summer perennials.

I climbed the witch-hazel again to take a closer look at how the flowers have developed.  Although the bright yellow tassels have all gone, there are still some tiny dark pink flowers to enjoy.

While we were all exploring and playing, Polar was busy clearing some of the flag iris out of the pond - definitely not a job for small bears, as it was very muddy work.  

The pond looks so much bigger now, we wondered if Grizzly might make us a little boat so we could row on it!  Polar wants to repair and replant the pond on the other side of the path too, to make it bigger and bring it right up to the edge of the path so it looks like one big pond with a bridge over it and makes a better wildlife habitat.

There won't be much we bears can do to help with the digging and pond lining, or putting the big stones in place around the edge, but we will help with planting around the edges.

There is always lots to do in the garden!