May is a month of blooming. The early signs of spring are past, gone for another year, but May brings a fullness of new growth, with everything seeming to be hurrying along towards summer.

April’s here, and spring is ‘bustin’ out all over’. Trees are coming into leaf with a lovely haze of freshest green on the birches and willows, cherry trees are in blossom and the sun is bringing…

Spring is usually in the air by March and now is the time for migrant birds to start appearing back in the UK. But this year, spring has so far been particularly wet! Despite the weather, there is…