Tuesday in the garden with Clare, we had a very productive morning tyeing up the wisteria on the newly built pillar.  moving the eye-sore water butt next to the greenhouse and clearing away the leaves on the gravel garden.

We have already cut the leaves off the hellebores which are budding up nicely, some already out, Daphne is flowering, iris ungularis and snowdrops flowering and crocus just beginning to colour.  We sowed various salvia seeds , more sweet peas and schizanthus , digitalis.  I ordered flowering seeds from Chiltern seeds, tweedia, tithonis, lobelia vallida, browallia, mimulus, chiltern seeds 01229 581137. The auriculas in the greenhouse are looking a bit unhappy which is quite normal for this time of year, I will give them a feed of tomarite in a weeks time i.e. towards the end of February, and hope they will be flower for March 9th our opening.