March Garden Notes

From my notebook on nature and the garden - March 2025

A swell of birdsong, the strengthening of the sun, the days lengthening and the countryside waking up again. I will always love March. There’s a moment when everything seems to yawn and stretch, as if a distant alarm clock has rung and suddenly we’re all awake again.

For months the only sign of life from the little cottages and farmhouses that dot through the fields here has been the curling woodsmoke from the chimneys. Now though shutters are flung open and people emerge again, tractors trundling through the fields, folk chatting over fences in the village, life being lived again.