A friend asked me how my new garden was coming on and I said it was a wee bit too early in the season for there to be much of interest.
But when I had a close look I realised it wasn’t too bad, as you can see there are some crocuses in flower, it’s a pity it was a grey day as they only open up in the sunshine.

Grape hyacinths of various shades of blue are also in bloom. As you can see I’m now gardening on stony ground, so different from the lovely soft sandy soil which I’ve been used to for the past 26 years, but this stony clay soil is much richer than the old garden’s was. There’s a moral there I’m sure!

The part of the garden below is the squidgiest, almost boggy and the pulmonaria (lungwort), bamboo (nitida) – I think – and the two very different ferns, the one on the left being a fish tail fern the right hand one something more common, anyway they enjoy having their roots in the wet ground.

Sedum, hebe, ajuga, crocuses and various other bits and pieces in my rockery which has just been constructed at the back end of the summer, it is obviously still a work in progress. The small stripey leaves on the right are dwarf tulips, I’m sure I put some dwarf daffodil bulbs in there too but they’re being shy at the moment it seems.

That primula hasn’t even been planted yet, I’m hoping it’ll seed itself around as it’s a gorgeous shade of pinks and yellows, it’s called Champagne.

I have started off some seeds, such as cosmos, alyssum, cornflowers and sweet William and along with a lot of new roses which I’m busy planting out this week I hope the whole place will be a riot of colour in the summer. The plan is to cover all of the soil with plants, so if there are any weeds (bound to be) then they’ll not be visible. I can’t wait for it all to get going.