March 11. Autumn crocuses 
March 18. More crocuses 
March 19. Crocuses … 
March 19. Crocuses under the first chestnut
March 23. Autumn, seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness … Quinces in the Quincecunx fully formed, but not yet ripe.
March 23. Quince 
March 23. Quince
April 3 – May 6. The cockatoos have arrived in force to feed on the chestnuts, . The cockatoos arrived only during the 1983 drought, and stayed. It took a few years for them to work out how to eat chestnuts, but now they get the bulk of them, but leave enough for Montacute guests.
April 3. A cheeky devil, and he knows it 
May 6. Chestnuts mostly gone. Cockatoos feeling well-fed
April 14 – May 6. The nerines are in flower, and last quite a while, as do the salvias. The trees are beginning to shed their leaves, beginning with the tulip tree.
