Inside the Abbey Gardens is an information board that includes a picture of the Abbey Gardens taken around 100 years ago with a lady and a girl in white dresses. They show up more than the flowers in this old photo.

There are no flowers in the formal gardens yet. There was a lady walking two toddlers on leashes. They would have made a good picture but I can’t just go around taking pictures of people without permission.

Beside the stone balustrades, white snowdrops grow. They are there every year, and occasionally coincide with the snow.

Pots of snow drops were also on sale at the Monday Market yesterday.

P.S. I got a surprise invitation for Afternoon Tea on February 2nd in Abingdon to celebrate the end of January and the arrival of the first snowdrops heralding the Spring .

The Wisteria at the Crown and Thistle is having a second flowering. It flowered back in May.

The bar used to be known as the Stocks as it had some wooden punishment stocks outside. It is now known as The Wisteria Pub. Wisteria has been growing for a long in the Crown and Thistle courtyard and this is the first time I have noticed a second flowering in September.

Lesley sent me a picture of the ‘brilliant display of flowers at Roysse Court.’

There is a vibrant red blue and orange display at the front

with more whites and blues in the planters and hanging baskets behind.

The area has only just been refurbished with new slabs and planters and grass so this is the first time it has been seen in full bloom.