Garden Time! And a New Post at The Gardening Habit
Here in the UK Spring has really sprung! There’s a new scent in the softer air, a scent full of promise of good things to come. No longer the damp petrichor of autumn or the biting winds of winter, instead a welcome feeling of hope and happiness as we all emerge from our winter hibernation. It was with a spring in my step too that I went to the nursery at the weekend to seek out some tulip bulbs and alpines - the tulips to go in pots or a border, and the alpines to go in the long-neglected planting strip atop a drystone wall which I created back in 2018 (you can’t rush these things!!) and where a self-seeded cowslip had inspired my planting ideas. I was like a kid in a sweet shop and soon gathered together a whole trolley of beautiful little plants including deep red as well as pink and white mounds of Saxifrage, white Artemisia and a favourite of mine Cerastium tomentosum (the aptly named Snow-in-Summer), together with cheery yellow Primula veris, purple tulips, some ground cover...
