Spring Is In The Air

And, sure enough, when they actually really, really looked, they all saw little tiny signs of growing things. Tommy found a lovely white snowdrop - it was nearly taller than him! It is only a little flower though, it's just that Tommy is even littler!

Then there were flowers just unfurling on the primrose - very pale lemon petals but shining brightly against the dark soil in the flower bed. James found some green shoots coming through the soil in one of the borders but he didn't know what they were.

He asked the others if any of them knew. But none of them did. "We'll have to keep an eye on them," said Scary "and see what they turn into - and maybe check in our flower book when we go back inside."

The bears' favourite spring flower is the crocus. There were lots of them out in the lawn and they were all sorts of pretty colours. There were white ones, and yellow ones, creamy-coloured ones and pale mauve ones. They looked too delicate to be out in this very cold weather. It's amazing how flowers can survive such temperatures….. the bears were pretty sure that they wouldn't be able to manage!