We are all waiting for the wintry weather of storms with high winds, snow, rain and dark skies briefly punctured with sunshine to finally blow away and allow the arrival of spring.
Earlier this week when it looked like the blue sky might last longer than 15 minutes I nipped down to the Town Centre to do some chores. It’s only a 12 minute walk from where I live and by the time I was heading back home it still didn’t look like rain and I decided to walk back through Christchurch Park.
The Wolsey Garden is a small semi-formal space within the larger parkland. It has neatly clipped box and yew which gives structure that sustains interest in the space even in very early spring, or is that late winter, before the first flowers bloom.
It is these fine evergreens that also punctuate the full garden of early autumn giving a dark background for the wispy sprays of seedheads and colourful dots of the seasonal flowers.
I took one final look over the neatly clipped yew hedge at those repeating balls so clearly alluding to the sculpture, ‘Triple Mycomorph’ by Bernard Reynolds, and then it was a brisk walk home.
And, how about this – here is a photo of some flowers that with any luck will be making an appearance later in the year.
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Agnes Ashe 
Let’s hope for early Spring
I was hopeful, but I just looked at the Met Office’s forecast for the rest of this week and it’s more wind and rain off the Atlantic. Ah well, that’s more of the same then.
Yep, sadly so, Agnes
Well, I call that a pretty satisfactory walk. We had spring last week, I think. But then winter came back …
It did indeed, but maybe now we’ve hit the vernal equinox spring has properly arrived and this time will stay. Fingers crossed.
yes definitely a little of late winter and early spring
I guess we can expect there will be less defined seasonal weather as the climate changes.
Here we’re just getting daffodils. Oh thank goodness.
Yes, there’s nothing like their uplifting yellow to let you know that spring is on its way.
I remember your previous post about walking through this garden, and the story behind the sculpture. Maybe one day I will stroll through and see it for myself.
Well, the mansion, the park and the little garden are probably about the best Ipswich has to offer.
You’re not selling this to me, Agnes. I’m withdrawing my recommendation to the local tourist office to hire you as their Ambassador! Hahahaaaa
Oh dear trouble is I’ve lost my rose-tinted spectacles and my glass half empty personality is taking over. Oops
A little side-track…I once heard that engineers do not refer to glass half-full or half-empty. Rather, the design of the glass is not fit for the scope of the project.
… You’re welcome 🙂 Thank me later…
Hah – I love it! 😂