EASTER and the onset of spring is being marked at Moreton's Fosseway Garden Centre which has opened its doors to a small farmyard of spring babies.

Easter chicks, lambs, bunnies and kids are enjoying the attentions of visiting children with several receiving names.

The event is being held within the plant area, and children have the opportunity of bottle feeding orphan lambs three times a day.

The Pygmy goats have been amusing everybody with their funny antics, and the rabbits have been enjoying a cuddle or two.

"The soft, fluffy Easter chicks which only hatched on Monday are a particular hit with the children," garden centre owner Gill Godwin commented.

"Everybody just loves the small fluffy, yellow chicks, they are so cute. There is also a little black one which the children have called Phil!"

The Easter farm is at the garden centre until Easter Monday.