@Karen: blogging (and photography) helps me to keep track of everything that’s going on in my garden.

@Me! Ik kan het nauwelijks geloven dat er echt niks te vinden is… Echt ook geen verborgen veldkersje (aka springzaad)?

@David: That’s the advantage of speaking Dutch: when the rest of the world doesn’t understand your language, you have to learn a language that the rest of the world does understand .

@HappyMouffetard: thank you!

@Linda: it is only recently that I came to realize that – allthough we are here on the same degree of latitude as, let’s say the central part of Lake Manitoba in Canada – the climate is much milder here… (I did know that our climate was milder than the Canadian climate, but I didn’t realize that our degree of latitude is the same as etc.)

@Helen Yoest, Gail, Sweet Bay: thank you… I’ll have to check out your blogs (and several others) within the next few days.

@tina: like I said to Racquel: keeping track of what’s blooming over the course of month made me see things I didn’t see before.

@Janien: ‘kleine veldkers’ is bij veel tuiniers bekend en verwenst als ‘springzaad’.

@Dave: over here, Cornelian cherry is one of the best-known and most-seen winterblooming shrubs… And few people realize it is native.

@Town mouse: I’m lucky, alder is the only plant that makes my hayfever really bad. I do sneeze during the rest of the season, but is is always worst during mild days in March.

@Anna: yes, when I started listing my plants this month, I was sure I would never reach the same number… but I did, because several plants that had stopped blooming last year already, are still in full flower now.

@VP: Lesser celandine is spreading here too, but not so vigourously like it seems to do elsewhere. I don’t mind: those bright little stars add some color to a still dull garden, and once the colors are exploding in May, the lesser celandine has vanished completely.

@Jan: since I started making monthly flower-lists, I used to scribble down everything I notice when I walk through my garden. Then I make a tentative list, and just before publishing there a quick check if everything is still there…

@Linda: thank you… that picture made me happy, too…

Tomorrow I’ll be saying something about the public planting I found on my trip to Bruges last week. It would be so interesting to hear your opinions on what I have to say as you know your country so much better than I do.