I've managed to save a corm begonia over the winter, much to my amazement. It is one of the dark leaved, orange flowered ones, forget the name. I'm currently warming up some fresh potting compost in the dining room for it!
Last week I was complaining my water butts by the greenhouse were too low and I was going to have to carry water up from the storage tank in watering cans to top them up ready for the summer. Today I filled them to the brim with shovel fulls of snow.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Seeds sown in stages from 21st March until 1st April are all mostly up. Thats a good reason to be cheerful for me because I grow all my plants from seed.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We've had heavy rain all morning so the garden is getting a real soaking which it sorely needed and the waterbutts (all 8!) are full. Our paper says that March was one of the wettest months ever - not here it wasn't!
We've got bluebells too Obelixx, just along the lane but my definitely English ones aren't out yet. There is a fabulous bluebell wood near Hungerford, Berks that we usually see in early May, but they're probably going to be out early this year.
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Thats a good reason to be cheerful for me because I grow all my plants from seed.