The Darling Buds of April

Can't quite remember what took me to the garden this morning. Else, I would have missed seeing this gorgeous allium bud break through. That's what spring is all about, isn't it? Things popping up everywhere, blink and you miss it.

The viburnum buds have grown larger, still pale green  and in a few days they will be an incandescent white.
The lilies and strawberries are growing with a renewed vigour. And so are those muscari (grape hyacinth) bulbs planted just a couple of months ago. I had discarded a few bulbs by scattering them on the ground (as opposed to binning them as they seemed to be in a rather rotted state). Huge surprise to see rather healthy shoots and flowers from a couple of those bulbs, bulbs still on the surface of the soil with a few white root fibres anchoring them to the ground. How little it takes to support life - rather humbling to see how this universe works.