It was such a glorious day on Sunday! So warm - I clocked up to 18°C in the growhouse even with the flap up. I braved Ikea first thing in the morning. Apart from the sheer number of parents who thought Ikea was the perfect place to bring petulant toddlers who'd rather have been watching cartoons, it wasn't too heinous. I picked up a couple of the mini-coldframe thingies, and half a dozen ferns at 38p each. I was so tempted by the Livistonia for a fiver and more Cycas revoluta for £7.50, but I resisted.
So when I got home it was straight out in the garden. It was warm enough to sit outside in t-shirts and eat lunch, and having opened the green tomato chutney from last season for the first time, Hubster and I are thoroughly enjoying it with cheese and bread. And then a solid afternoon's work, potting up a newly-acquired Magnolia stellata, disposing of the truly dead stuff, and removing a vine weevil infestation from the Tsuga canadensis (distressed to discover that vine weevils ADORE Tsuga).
This was the first of the 10 or so I found. I put them for the birds to eat. The robins obliged.
My parents brought some lovely big sandstone lumps from their garden for me (they're having their garden totally redesigned), and I used a couple to raise up pots, and the rest as accents. They looked really good with little tea-light lanterns on top of them.
I poured myself a margarita and sat outside for a couple of hours as it got dark. I could not believe that it was still the middle of March - it's felt like April for the past few days. Fronds are almost visibly unfurling, and I am relieved to see that every single one of my deciduous conifers is budding: the Metasequoia going full steam ahead into leaf!
So when I got home it was straight out in the garden. It was warm enough to sit outside in t-shirts and eat lunch, and having opened the green tomato chutney from last season for the first time, Hubster and I are thoroughly enjoying it with cheese and bread. And then a solid afternoon's work, potting up a newly-acquired Magnolia stellata, disposing of the truly dead stuff, and removing a vine weevil infestation from the Tsuga canadensis (distressed to discover that vine weevils ADORE Tsuga).
This was the first of the 10 or so I found. I put them for the birds to eat. The robins obliged.
My parents brought some lovely big sandstone lumps from their garden for me (they're having their garden totally redesigned), and I used a couple to raise up pots, and the rest as accents. They looked really good with little tea-light lanterns on top of them.
I poured myself a margarita and sat outside for a couple of hours as it got dark. I could not believe that it was still the middle of March - it's felt like April for the past few days. Fronds are almost visibly unfurling, and I am relieved to see that every single one of my deciduous conifers is budding: the Metasequoia going full steam ahead into leaf!
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