Spring Flowers in the garden

We have been really busy over the last couple of weekends and due to the nice weather have weeded all the flower beds. We have even put down chipped wood, which we have chipped ourselves from old branches from the wooded area. It is nice to get on top of the weeding. The layer of chipped wood saves alot of time weeding and keeps the plants moist so therefore saves on watering.

A few pictures of the pretty spring flowers in our garden. I love auricula (bottom middle) and are looking for more.

Yellow is the colour of Spring

These are photos of some beautiful flowers from gardens we have visited last year and a recent photo of celandines in the wooded part of our garden. We are making progress on the garden, I will have to show you some pictures soon.

Sweetpeas are up and doing well

I am really pleased that my sweetpeas are up and doing so well. Just a tip, after they produce two leaves nip them, then they will start to bush. Looking forward to seeing them in flower. Also planted some primula and cowslip seeds. Will keep you all posted on progress.

Planting Sweetpea Seeds

This morning was lovely and sunny, so I went out to the garage and decided to plant some seeds.

I've been collecting loo roll tubes for a while now, with the intention of using them for this purpose. I can't take all the credit as I got the idea from Louise Love, I think she planted her seeds in the Autumn. Last year I planted them around March and they didn't get going earlier enough and only started flowering around Aug/Sept, so this year I've decided to start them off abit earlier. Some experts say you should start them in the Autumn, but we'll see what happens, abit of trial and error.

So this is what i've done.

I taped them together with cellotape into a circle.

Placed some newspaper on a plastic tray and filled them with compost and then popped one seed into each roll.

I've placed the tray on the window sill of our conservatory, which we don't heat where they should get plenty of light.

I'll keep you posted on progress.