![Primroses in a vase](https://ardivachar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Primroses2.jpg)
This year spring is a cold affair with a penetrating northerly wind imprisoning the landscape in monochrome frigidity. As I walk down to the cottage garden across the field there is not a daisy, celandine or dandelion with a floral offering to welcome Persephone to these norther shores. However, in the shelter of the garden