The photos just don’t do justice to the wonderful carpet of naturalised early Crocus tomasinus all along the East Bank of Brunswick Square Gardens (by the playing fields fence). They are very pale mauve and slender, so don’t show up well in a picture. If we ever get another sunny day, when they’ll be open and looking at their best, a pale mauve haze along the bank, rush over to catch them before they disappear. They won’t be around for long.

Elsewhere in the gardens the common yellow and purple crocuses are doing their best to push up through the wet and muddy grass – they are hoping for some sun and drier days! Aren’t we all!