The garden with the bridge over the water
Every year a friend from church holds a Daffodil Day in her garden in aid of her church. We get to walk round her wonderful garden full of spring flowers and also partake of refreshments provided by her and her colleagues. There are stalls selling plants and cakes and other produce and also raffles and a tombola.
A wet and windy afternoon
This year’s Daffodil Day wasn’t as successful as usual because of the awful weather on Sunday. There were frequent heavy showers often merging into more prolonged rain. The wind was very blustery and many people were put off from attending. Towards the end of the afternoon there was even a thunder-storm!
Not as many flowers as usual because of the cold weather
Richard and I arrived in the early afternoon and parked our car in one of the less muddy places. We enjoyed a hot drink and a cake while sitting under the awning. We bought a couple of small cakes and a pot of raspberry jam. We took part in the tombola and bought two plants.
I love this yew hedge!
It has an inviting archway.
The many trees are under-planted with daffodils and other spring bulbs. There are primroses and snowdrops and violets and many other pretty flowers.
A tree just starting to blossom
Scillas
Anemones
The summer-house
View of St Margaret’s church through the trees
This post is dedicated to wonderful people like Cordelia who work so hard all the time to raise funds for good causes with often very little return.
A Suffolk Lane 
It’s too bad the weather kept people away. Hopefully they were still able to donate to the charity.
That’s a nice yard. I’m so glad that I’m not the one who has to trim that hedge though!
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Thank-you Allen! It is an enormous garden! The lady who lives there is 80 and does most of the gardening herself. She has someone in to cut the grass and trim the hedges.
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I am sorry that the weather has held back the daffodils.
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Yes, it was a shame. In recent years there have been a couple of occasions when the daffodils have come and gone by the time our neighbour holds her open garden.
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Cheers, Cordelia! You now have world renown. 😉 Thanks for your efforts to help.
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I will tell her next time I see her!
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More typical wintery weather here in our part of Oregon today as well, and a thunderstorm.
A friend brought by 300 daffodil bulbs about 2 months ago. I got them in, and now have a second wave of daffodils coming up here.
Beautiful photos, Clare. And Daffodil Day sounds wonderful!
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Thank-you Lavinia. Winter doesn’t want to leave this year does it? Two waves of daffodils sounds wonderful!
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That’s an impressive garden. Mine fits in one photo and lacks any flowers. Glad you had a lovely time despite the weather.
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Gardens take some time to develop. My friend’s one has been looked after for many, many years. We have been in our house for nearly nine years and we have hardly started on ours. There were no flowerbeds when we arrived, only a vegetable patch. I spent ages digging one quite large bed and began planting it and have had to abandon it as I haven’t got the time at present to garden as much as I’d like. Sad but necessary. Your garden will be fine. Get to know what kind of soil it has and look to see what other people grow. Finding out what wild flowers/weeds grow well often indicates what related ‘proper’ flowers will grow well too. Good luck!
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What a pity about the weather. And, yes, people like Cordelia are wonderful.
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Thank-you! Yes, it was such a shame about the weather. It is always a risk holding outdoor events in the early spring!
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That’s the same for here!
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Bless Cordelia and souls like her for all they do. Lovely post Clare. Hugs Xxx
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Thank-you Jane! 🙂
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What an awesome place, Clare. I love that little walk bridge and the vine covered archway. Would love to have that garden. Daffodils are such happy flowers with their sunny yellow faces 🙂 xo
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Thank-you, Elizabeth. I love daffodils too – especially the smaller ones. 🙂
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It’s a shame that the weather was so poor for the occasion, I would have gone anyway just to see the impressive garden no matter what the weather was.
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That’s what we think too. We have seen her garden quite a few times before but it’s so lovely we like to visit whenever possible. Thanks Jerry.
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Great post and tribute to joyful Daffodils, as well dear Clare! ⭐
Happy Easter to you and all my best wishes, Aquileana 😀
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Thank-you, dear Aquileana! Happy Easter to you too!
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What beautiful scenes, Clare. I know the weather did not cooperate, but these photos have a slightly misty feel that I really like.
That’s some garden, eh? Must be a lot of work, but I like the slightly wild feel of parts of it. I love that yew hedge too. I felt like saying yew-hew! (Pls. forgive me for that bad attempt at being funny…)
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Ha ha! Yew are forgiven! Cordelia was very disappointed after all her hard work. As I said elsewhere, she is over 80 years of age now and does most of the gardening herself. She was also hard at work baking and arranging all the facilities in the house and garden for a few weeks before the event too. She can put up with most types of weather (she had heavy snow a few years ago) but this year’s was the most trying – wind, rain, cold and a thunder storm! If she had organised it for this weekend she would have had a much better time and more of her flowers would have been out!
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I am so sorry to hear of Cordelia’s disappointment. Weather can do that to us garden-lovers.
My friend had an outdoor wedding for her daughter and the garden was sublime. A couple days later, hail and strong winds came through and destroyed everything. We were all so thankful that it came after the wedding, but we also knew that somewhere, someone else was feeling the pain.
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Thanks. I like the way you bring domestic, everyday events so alive in your posts. Regards thom
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Thank-you very much, Thom.
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What a beautiful, peaceful garden. When i am your friends age I hope I am still able and willing to do most of my gardening myself – your friend is amazing.
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She is! She loves to travel too and until recently had a couple of holidays a year (spending money on those rather than her house) Now she is over 80, travel insurance has got more difficult to get and is more expensive.
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Thanks for taking us along to celebrate Daffodil Day, Clare. What a beautiful garden, and that archway is fabulous!
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Thank-you, Jill.
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Your blogpost from the daffodilgarden is lovely! When I saw it, I longed for the Spring in north of Europe.
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Thank-you TinTin! It was a terrible day – so gloomy, windy and wet and the flowers we had hoped to see were all hiding! It is sometimes hard to understand why anyone would miss this kind of weather but I am sure I would if I had to live abroad.
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I know all about grey and rainy days. I think that nature is beautiful in another way, when it hasn’t to compete with the sun and It’s lovely to come in after a walk a bad day and treat yourself with a cup of tea.
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Oh yes! I agree completely!
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