The first daffodils opened up in the woods today to join the snowdrops and chionodoxa. Task for this weekend is to get out there with a couple of pails of compost and more clumps of snowdrops and some winter aconite. Deer seem to pass on these little bulbs.

Since there is just about no top soil there, I scrape away the dead leaves and a few stones, put down the clumps I've dug and then 'plant' them in the compost. The daffs were planted more than 40 years ago and have now seeded themselves around. Snowdrops, chionodoxa, winter aconite and corydalis solida have seeded themselves in my front garden so I can dig up clumps to move. When I do, the holes get filled with compost and that helps new seedlings to get started.