Spring, mark 2.

Spring arrived properly this week.  Here is another volley of photos from the garden, taken yesterday afternoon.  Magnolia budding up:

The ornamental cherry gives a subtle hint of what's to come:

Here seen from the other side of the fish pond:

A rose waits for the right moment:

The Oriental garden, youthful light greens sneaking in:

And finally, showing how fast stone will darken after sheering off.  The top section sheered off in 2010.  The bottom chunk fell away in February.  Nature doing its bit - not much we can do about that...