Today we spent planting flowers, beans, onions and leeks, nearly all grown from seed. I wonder how the Thompson & Morgan miniature sweet pea plants will tolerate tonight outdoors. They arrived by post today, as plug plants clverly wrapped in hard plastic. The notes say they are fully hardened so here's hoping...... Last year the leek seedlings all disappeared the day after planting - squirrels, slugs --- we don't know. Let's hope they survive this year.
The wisteria at the end of the garden is in full bloom, the best it's been for many a year. It has spread to an elder tree. The white clematis has also spread, at one end onto a weeping birch, and nearer the house, onto a Japanese acer.
The bulbs have all but finished. At the end of April we spent a 4 day break at Akersloot near to Amsterdam, to see the tulips in the Keukenhof Gardens. We travelled with Worthing Coaches, being picked up just 100 yards from home in the Goring Road at 6 am. Two days were spent travelling. One day at the Gardens, the next into Amsterdam with a canals trip.
