Yes your Marion, it just give me a fright because i nearly stood on it:-\. just seen our forcast and we have rain coming today but sunshine in the week, tyical when where back at work.enjoy planting your new plants Marion
Herbs all planted up and put in the potager except for the parsley which is in the kitchen for use. When my new wheelbarrow arrives I will trundle my lovely prostrate rosemary up from the front garden to join them and put the Apple mint I bought at Abbotsbury Subtropical gdns last summer into a bigger pot and it can join them too. With all my new freebie lavender plants from my neighbour my potager will smell and look lovely by the time the potatoes are up.
They look lovely Marion, im looking forward to making mint sauce this year mmmm , its raining and cold here now so going to do some house work the visit my mum and dad
Another lovely week for gardening lies ahead. Today I shall pot up my three new alpines from their 1 litre plastic pots into pretty terracotta half pans and also the dwarf alpine heuchera which I bought in a 9cm pot. They shall have pride of place in the potager on the table in the centre where I put my coffee flask when I am working there. We decided the amelanchier trees on offer were too big to go in the car and did not buy one which is a blessing as the freebie one i thought was dead is anything but. it has leaves and flowers coming and is twice the size it was last year. I will get a pic when its buds open. Its berries are loved by the birds and me as they are very sweet. As I have quite a few bags of good compost now I will fill my four oblong woven baskets I bought last year with bulbs and compost to fill them and used all summer for gazanias with fresh compost and plant up afresh. Most of my gazanias are huge plants now having come unscathed through the winter so will plant them in the borders, big clumps of them where they get full sun.
Full steam ahead this lovely Monday morning. I could not resist snapping the first two flower panicles on my amelanchier now over four feet tall (it came as a one foot stick freebie). Also my dwarf rhodo with green flowers and my more exotic daffodils are beginning to flower too. But this morning's work is my coffee table up the potager.
My magnolia tree finally burst into life last week. Every year I just love walking down the street towards it and getting the lovely smells from it I have strawberries in flower and have today been to the garden centre to buy a new pot for one of my palms as it kept getting blown over by the wind. Looks ever so happy in its new pot
We have a couple of camelias that we have just potted up too
Nice hosta, flumpy. To make your sweet peas look tidier you could pinch the stem off down to the top pair of leaves. They look like they are starting to bush out.
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Herbs all planted up and put in the potager except for the parsley which is in the kitchen for use. When my new wheelbarrow arrives I will trundle my lovely prostrate rosemary up from the front garden to join them and put the Apple mint I bought at Abbotsbury Subtropical gdns last summer into a bigger pot and it can join them too. With all my new freebie lavender plants from my neighbour my potager will smell and look lovely by the time the potatoes are up.
Another lovely week for gardening lies ahead. Today I shall pot up my three new alpines from their 1 litre plastic pots into pretty terracotta half pans and also the dwarf alpine heuchera which I bought in a 9cm pot. They shall have pride of place in the potager on the table in the centre where I put my coffee flask when I am working there. We decided the amelanchier trees on offer were too big to go in the car and did not buy one which is a blessing as the freebie one i thought was dead is anything but. it has leaves and flowers coming and is twice the size it was last year. I will get a pic when its buds open. Its berries are loved by the birds and me as they are very sweet. As I have quite a few bags of good compost now I will fill my four oblong woven baskets I bought last year with bulbs and compost to fill them and used all summer for gazanias with fresh compost and plant up afresh. Most of my gazanias are huge plants now having come unscathed through the winter so will plant them in the borders, big clumps of them where they get full sun.
Hooray! My new Bristol wheelbarrow ordered on Friday has arrived! Itching to have a go at putting it together but today is planned!
Full steam ahead this lovely Monday morning. I could not resist snapping the first two flower panicles on my amelanchier now over four feet tall (it came as a one foot stick freebie). Also my dwarf rhodo with green flowers and my more exotic daffodils are beginning to flower too. But this morning's work is my coffee table up the potager.
My magnolia tree finally burst into life last week. Every year I just love walking down the street towards it and getting the lovely smells from it
I have strawberries in flower and have today been to the garden centre to buy a new pot for one of my palms as it kept getting blown over by the wind. Looks ever so happy in its new pot 
We have a couple of camelias that we have just potted up too
Beautiful time of year Fruitcake. Some plants say farewell till next year so elegantly like these tulips and hyacinths. Heucheras never say goodbye.
your new flowers are looking very nice in there planters
, I bought a hosta Albo Marginata
And thought I would show you my sweat pea progress
Nice hosta, flumpy. To make your sweet peas look tidier you could pinch the stem off down to the top pair of leaves. They look like they are starting to bush out.