6-8th December

After breakfast I sat down with a coffee and a couple of seed catalogues and went through deciding what flowers I would seek to grow next year, but more of that later.

 

 

8^th December
Recently the weather has been quite chilly – not the sort to welcome you as you poke your nose outside, thus I have been taking the lazy option and doing nothing. I peer out the window and see a garden that longs to be tidied up, and those toys that still need cleaning and putting away! The nicotianas have finished, as too have the sweet peas, although the stems on some are still as green as a few months ago. Today I tackled the front garden and planted 8 red and yellow tulip bulbs in a circle around the central fuchsia. That left 2 more which I planted either end of the bay window wall. I dug around a bit and found some other bulbs planted by friends who rented our house a few years ago. They had not planted them very deeply and so have not flowered much, so I replanted them between the two tulips in a line parallel to the wall.