I'm with Monty Don when it comes to the best time of the year - for us, spring wins every time. He loves the greenness and I love the spring flower colours. The forsythia buds just beginning to burst and the yellow sunbursts of crocus and daffodils cheer up the grayest of days. Tatties chitting and some even planted up in the bags we tried last year - a great way to crop if space is short. Still a wee bit too cold to sow the beans in the ground but planting them up in pots ready to go in is the next job on the garden list. I did read that old gardeners dropped their trousers to test if the earth was warm enough but we don't go that far at Roslin Cottage. Neighbours and all that...
Across the road from the cottage purple crocus have been planted along side the daffodils and with the blue sky and sunshine what a lovely picture they make. We watched as the 'snow horse' melted off the top of 'the ben', or at least that is the shape we see from our side of Callander but it depends on where you are and how the imagination works, what you see as Ben Ledi loses her winter coat. Yes, spring is round the corner, the best time in the Trossachs.
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