I wasn’t feeling great this afternoon - it was a bit chilly for being out in the Magic Garden so I took myself off for a walk. By the main road there is a an old hedgerow that was an avenue of horse chestnuts with other species in between. Storm Alwen and other causes have thinned this out but where it remains the horse chestnuts are resplendent in fresh green foliage and to my joy the most amazing flowers. I don’’t think I had ever appreciated before what lovely blooms precede the eventual conkers.

There were two small brooms in flower & a tiny gorse bush too. Further on I found some early 0x-eye daisies in a sheltered spot.

Ben’s quite content to sit in his trough

The hawthorns are also in bloom - ‘May’ blossom. Hawthorn in Scottish Gaelic is known as ‘sigtheach’ & is said to mark the entrance of the otherworld. Its bad luck to cut hawthorn at any time other than when its in bloom.