Nine months between

In early July last year, the middle part of the top of the garden looked like this:

Yesterday it looked like this:

It has less than three months to perform its metamorphosis. I'm expecting fewer montbretia leaves because roe deer have been scraping up the corms and eating them. I'm not sure if there will be fewer Peruvian lilies too.

There is a bitter east wind again today but the lungwort that didn't flower last year is doing so now, wild daffodils are opening, the forsythia, wind-battered, flowers bravely on, and the washus door snail looks jolly.