Good luck with it all. How exciting! I find April is a pretty good month for sowing in the veg garden. Hopefully it will have dried out a bit and the ground will be warming up. Potatoes, peas, spinach, beetroot, carrots, parsnips and more can be sown in the ground. Runner beans and French beans can be started in the greenhouse. I would buy little plants of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, courgettes for planting out in May after the frosts.
Sensible to leave the flower borders for this year until you know what's what, but you could have annuals in pots for colour.
Buddleias can be pruned very hard, but they will still make a lot of growth and become pretty big again.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Unfortunately Dove the one in question has done just that. One side of the plant is completely merged with a crack in the base of the conservatory. I aim to relocate it if possible. Unfortunately I cannot do anything until April. I'll be leaving the flowerbeds for a year as discussed so you'll all be able to help me identify the plants as they show.
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Good luck with it all. How exciting! I find April is a pretty good month for sowing in the veg garden. Hopefully it will have dried out a bit and the ground will be warming up. Potatoes, peas, spinach, beetroot, carrots, parsnips and more can be sown in the ground. Runner beans and French beans can be started in the greenhouse. I would buy little plants of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, courgettes for planting out in May after the frosts.
Sensible to leave the flower borders for this year until you know what's what, but you could have annuals in pots for colour.
Buddleias can be pruned very hard, but they will still make a lot of growth and become pretty big again.
Simon, cut the buddleias down to knee height about now and give them a sprinkling of Fish Blood and Bone and you'll be well rewarded.
How close to the conservatory is the one you're worried about?
In 50+ years of gardening I've never met a garden buddleia whose roots damaged a building.
The only ones I know that have done that are the ones that grow from seeds blown in the wind which take root in cracks in mortar and on rooftops.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.