The clocks went forward last night (here in the UK anyway – I’m aware that it happened in the USA a couple of weeks ago) and it’s Easter Sunday, so Happy Easter to those who celebrate. We have had a busy week garden-wise, especially yesterday when we got quite a bit done while the sun was shining.
Last week I said I wanted to get the potatoes in on Good Friday but as it poured with rain most of the day that didn’t happen. So I did them yesterday instead. We have had a bit of a move round of the veg containers as the new chairs and table arrived on Monday and are now installed in what used to be veg corner. So some of the other pots of things have been moved around to make room by the fence, on the sunny side of the garden.
The patio carpet came on Tuesday so in combination with the new furniture, the former veg corner now looks like this.
A big improvement. We also planted up the new bed at the bottom of the garden, and moved the rickety bench from the patio to in front of the shed. This morning the back garden looked like this:
(The carpet has footprints on it because of the dew.) And the front garden looked like this:
The sambucus is covered in buds
The spiraea has a few more flowers.
Daffodils, winter pansies, forsythia and pulmonaria are still looking good and the apple blossom is already opening. I took this yesterday when it was sunny (today it is grey and gloomy, but at least it’s not raining!)
We planted up the new bed yesterday – the new mahonia and ferns arrived just in time, and we added in a couple of pieris, a heuchera and some lychnis, daffs and crocuses out of pots.
The old bench in its new location:
And it wouldn’t be Easter without at least one daffodil – here’s one of the teeny ones in the troughs at the front:
The Random Gardener 
Happy Easter!
Rhody and I are presently in Western Washington, where native red elderberry grows wild. I got some from Tangly Cottage Gardening last year. They are not as pretty as yours or other cultivars, but I wanted the wild form because I am unacquainted with it. It is also native where I live, but only in isolated colonies near the Summit. It was easier to get it here than to try to find it at home. Actually, I still have never seen it in the wild at home.