Easter weekend
My new poppy curtains...
Suddenly it's warm and springlike and I cut the grass for the first time and clean a few windows.
The garden is green and pale - the tulips still folded buds...
the hellebore turned inward....not a single daffodil - don't know what happened to them...
lots of Euphorbia though
and primroses.
On Sunday we find the colour of spring has arrived at Knights Hayes Court, NT house near Tiverton in this forest of plum purple hellebores. We join the crowds wandering round the gardens under a hot blue sky, but avoid the Easter egg hunt trail and find a shady spot in the woods for our sandwich picnic balanced on a knobbly log with lovely Devon views in front of us.
Don't know what this bee is feasting on..
Mahonia - Californian Grape - it has a powerful perfume and spiky red leaves....
Rhododendron
Camellia
Magnolia
more magnolia and
Quince japonica.
Back home after tea with my husband's aunty, and after supper, he says What are we having for dessert?
I hadn't planned anything but as it's Easter I made an instant pudding with bananas from the fruit bowl....
Melt butter and dark muscovado sugar in a pan, add the sliced bananas, and cook till sticky and caramelised adding the juice and grated zest of an orange to cut the sweetness and give a tang to the sauce. Toasted coconut shards - optional. Vanilla ice cream a must.
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