After the blizzards at the end of January February started with exceptionally high weather with a low at night of only 13 degrees. The winter grass is that bright shade of green I normally associate with Devon or Southern Ireland, not our normally blleak midlands. We returned to a short season of frost and then damp dull wetness which seems to suit the bulbs which are racing each other to open out.
Drizzle and dark grey skies don't suit me though so I retreated indoors to read. I found in the NY Times . a fascinating first chapter focussed on a New England garden
However the January Gold daffodils that last year bloomed by Jan 9th only opened out on the 2nd of this month, which was no earlier than the first of the tete-a-tete.
In our part of the world, even in as early a season as this, Hellebore niger is no Christmas rose but flowers its best in February.
The broad beans I planted in December have come through
Beetroot, carrots, leeks, brussels, romanesco.