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

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BaronessBL Mar 2017 6:51pm, 24 Mar 2017 6,382 posts	Quote Pin 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 Mar 2017 7:40pm, 24 Mar 2017 16,043 posts	Quote Pin LindsD 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 Mar 2017 7:50pm, 24 Mar 2017 8,427 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip I saw first patch of cowslips this year - it must be spring
Sharkie Mar 2017 8:14pm, 24 Mar 2017 11,190 posts	Quote Pin 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 Mar 2017 8:21pm, 24 Mar 2017 8,428 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip 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. Mar 2017 10:18pm, 24 Mar 2017 29,788 posts	Quote Pin .B. We went out to a new to us bar and listened to a live band, didn't stay late though!
LindsD Mar 2017 11:27pm, 24 Mar 2017 16,051 posts	Quote Pin LindsD I think it's my favourite smell. That and freesias.
Sharkie Mar 2017 11:30pm, 24 Mar 2017 11,191 posts	Quote Pin Sharkie 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 Mar 2017 11:32pm, 24 Mar 2017 16,054 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Oh yes jasmine. There was a lovely one in our garden but it had to come out. I don't remember why...
Sharkie Mar 2017 11:40pm, 24 Mar 2017 11,192 posts	Quote Pin Sharkie And honeysuckle.