Irish spring starts tomorrow with Lá Fhéile Bríde in Carlow

Peter Dowdall on the joys of snowbells, crocus and iris, breaking through the soil in pots and gardens now.

Spring is once more breathing life upwards from below the soil, awakening the world of flora from its slumber, though this winter was more like a cat nap than a fully fledged hibernation, with temperatures into the teens in the middle of December.

Does this time of the year remind you of the ‘heavens’ embroidered cloths enwrought with golden and silver light’?