Don’t know about you, but I really have had enough of this rain, the problem that we always have with this time of year…we get a little bit gorgeous spring sun – and then back to rain again! But it’s just Sod’s Law that it’s at the time when the garden is kicking back into life and we so desperately want to get outside to explore the new growth, the daffodils, the tulips, the hellebores and everything else the garden offers us in the infancy of spring.
So, another week comes around and it’s wetter than the last so there are yet more indoor jobs to complete and thankfully there are more than enough to keep us occupied! Seed sowing? Pricking out seedlings? You name it! I’ve already potted up lots of the dahlias but one more order arrived this week, which I think is the final one!
Another 8 arrived this week, from an order, I don’t even remember placing! Which takes the dahlias to about 25, I think, this year – and at this point, I literally have no idea where they were all go. I’ve planned out the borders fairly meticulously, but I’m still unsure where about four or five of them might go but I’m sure I’ll find the space somehow. Each time I look at our garden I imagine the lawn shrinking and shrinking until it’s pretty much just all border space! We only really have a lawn because of the children and letting them have somewhere to run around and play.
But, it’s really the patio that I get excited about and what I can do in the pots and around the pots. The daffodils continue to bloom (on that later) and the tulips are pushing through, but it’s some of the other parts that I’m really looking forward to seeing come to life this year. At the end of last year, I was kindly sent a tree from the wonderful, Frank P Matthews, and I finally gotten round to planting it into an equally wonderful pot from Tom’s Yard. The tree is a Prunus Little Pink Perfection and it’s going to do remarkably well, I hope, in the large pot in a somewhat sunny position on the patio.
As reported earlier, the daffodils continue to surprise me, not only in their beauty, but in their quantity, too! I planted an ungodly amount of bulbs in autumn and through December, but it’s only really now when they’re opening and flowering that I realise just how many I did actually plant. There seem to be more daffodils than ever before, but I, for one I’m not complaining in the slightest as they are a delight!! I’ve got a question over on my Instagram at the moment about daffodils that I think is going to substantially divide opinion…
And finally, on the podcast this week is the sensational Rosie Irving (on Insta as @rosieposieirving)! Rosie is a horticultural producer for TV and has been an instrumental part in programmes such as Garden Rescue, Love Your Garden, Great British Garden Revolution, Crazy Delicious AND Garden Rescue Revisits! What a career!! We discuss all of that and much more.
You can listen to Rosie and all past guests, here now!
I’m so thrilled that it’s finally spring yet the weather does seem to have taken a turn for the worse, but onwards and upwards!
Have a great week ahead and I’ll see you next week,
View From The Potting Bench 