Newtier! Jinglier! We're back. Do a New Thing for Spring... The Gloves are Off

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BaronessBL
BaronessBL
Mar 2017
6:51pm, 24 Mar 2017
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BaronessBL
Pathetic newt coming up - I am going to listen to The Archers in the living room rather than in my study.

Well I had to think of something............. :-)
LindsD
LindsD
Mar 2017
7:40pm, 24 Mar 2017
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I smelt my first sarcococca of the year. I love the smell (I know they don't only smell in the spring, but it's the first one I've smelt this year.
Rosehip
Rosehip
Mar 2017
7:50pm, 24 Mar 2017
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I saw first patch of cowslips this year - it must be spring :)
Sharkie
Sharkie
Mar 2017
8:14pm, 24 Mar 2017
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Sharkie
Two plant based newts I really like:

Linds - you have solved a semi mystery for me. :-) for some reason I didn't know sarcococca (sweet box). I've just looked it up and realised it was the shrub I was raving about to Raffo last year when I came across a big bush of it on a Jess walk. Absolutely gorgeous smell, you are right.

And Rosehip - cowslips. There is something special about cowslips. Snowdrops, Primroses, daffs, crocus, bluebells - all lovely, but cowslips are somehow more secretive, much rarer now than they once were.
Rosehip
Rosehip
Mar 2017
8:21pm, 24 Mar 2017
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:) there is one big patch near here, on a plot where greenhouses used to be. They may have been planted specially, but I love them. They remind me of the green lane behind my grandparents' smallholding :)
.B.
.B.
Mar 2017
10:18pm, 24 Mar 2017
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.B.
We went out to a new to us bar and listened to a live band, didn't stay late though! :-)
LindsD
LindsD
Mar 2017
11:27pm, 24 Mar 2017
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LindsD
I think it's my favourite smell. That and freesias.
Sharkie
Sharkie
Mar 2017
11:30pm, 24 Mar 2017
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Oh crikey yes - freesias are gorgeous too.

But then I like lilacs ... and lavender when you rub bits between your fingers.

And jasmine in the Med, when there's masses of it everywhere.....
LindsD
LindsD
Mar 2017
11:32pm, 24 Mar 2017
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LindsD
Oh yes jasmine. There was a lovely one in our garden but it had to come out. I don't remember why...
Sharkie
Sharkie
Mar 2017
11:40pm, 24 Mar 2017
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Sharkie
And honeysuckle.

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