You can compare with last year.

This is Tulip 'Little beauty', I also have 'Little princess' which is similar but more orange.

Several Teasel seeded, this is their second year so they will be flowering.

These tulips have done very well and are increasing in number. They are called Tulip 'Ballade'.

I like Tiarella but they don't do too well, great flowers the first year, and then less so. This latest one is Tiarella 'Iron butterfly' flowering well in its first year...

A bluebell, I planted many but I remove any that don't have the drooping habit, so there are not many left.

The geums are all flowering, this one is Geum 'Pink pettycoats'.

This Polemonium yezonense 'Bressingham Purple' has recovered from its brush with death when it was just about an inch of root and stem.

Many tulips are out at the moment.

The orange one below are Tulipa 'Balllerina' the purplish one towards the back are Tulipa 'Ballade'

In the container are Tulipa 'Little beauty' along with some Anemone blanda

Here is a top view of two Tulipa 'Ballade'. The mauve ones with yellow centers are Tulipa saxatilis 'Lilac Wonder' (Bakeri Group)

The striped ones in the foreground are Tulipa 'Peppermintstick'

The average temperature was 5.5C (last year 8.8C) with a minimum of -3.0C (-2.9C) and maximum of 17.2C (19.6C).

There were 13 days when the temperature dropped below zero, and last year there were just 3 frost days.

There was 17mm of rain, whereas last year there was just 5mm.

You can compare with last year.

Its the month of Tulips and Primroses and not much else. It was a pretty cold month which has held everything back I think.

Tulips

These are a mixture of 'Orange Brilliant' and 'Cape cod' tulips. Both from 2018, so they have survived reasonably well in this location. Some that were planted by the side of the house have just about all gone now.

These Tulipa 'Ballade' were originally planted in 2018 and have thrived as there are 12 here and a couple elsewhere from the original packet of ten bulbs.

The first year I moved here I planted a bulb in the front lawn. Every year there has been leaves, but this is the first flower.

After the 'Ballade' tulips die back, the T. 'Ballerina' take over the orangeness duties. There are also some 'Peppermint stick' and Tulipa bakerii 'Lilac Wonder'that …

First time I've grown any Erythronium, this is Erythronium 'Pagoda', only two of the four that were planted have come up.

I don't recall any of these when I moved here and some of them are growing where it used to be lawn. This one is growing in the gravel.

Not sure what kind of violet they are, probably Viola riviniana.

April has started out very frosty after a warm end to March. Never seen this before - all my tulips are drooping in the morning with the frosts. They are straightening up again later in the day.

The average temperature was 6.8C with a minimum of -2.1C and maximum of 18.0C. Last year the average was 5.8C (min -3.2C, max 17.0C).

There were 3 days when the temperature dropped below zero. But last there were 8 frost days. So overall it was warmer and less frosty than last year.

There was 22mm of rain, whereas last year there was 24mm.