Got to get ourselves back to the garden

Proverbial Spanish wisdom is that 'more grows in the garden than the gardener sows'. 

As the head of the seeds and weeds department on our Finca I have returned from an enforced absence accompanied by the recently retired Carol, who deals with the identified weeds and all the heavier and rougher work with relish. Our first week's work is beginning to show results and we are claiming back the garden from nature's grasp. Carol's war on the freely spreading Fenel is being won. 

Winter has seen the demise of  our young Mimmosa tree. The bougainvilla has died back to almost ground level but is producing new shoots. Everything else seems to be prospering.

Early signs of Spring.

The plants around Figueres are heralding the early days of ´Primivera´. Along the railway lines the brooms are beginning to flower. In shadier spots the pink Viburnum buds are starting to open.

Most striking of all is the bright yellow of the Mimmosa tree, thousands of tiny yellow puff balls on each branch cascade through the air very similar to the laburnum tree. It´s a real eye catcher on a cool spring morning.

Field poppies have started to bloom too, soon their red petals will fill the fields around and about the village.