Spring Fever

Our spring posy

Saturday got off to a good start with lovely sunshine, prompting us to sow even more vegetable seeds. Dwarf bean Sonesta and kholrabi Azure Star joined the other salad stuff in the cold frames, rhubarb chard, sweede Virtue and parsnip Gladiator in the veg garden. A little twigwam building followed in the main border, and then because we were expecting guests for lunch, the Grahams and some conservators who advise on the house restoration, we picked a bunch of spring flowers for the table and even wiped over the teapot! The potatoes were planted after lunch, Desiree, Mozart and Setanta, before an hours hoeing finished our days work. There is a touch of spring fever about everything now with so many jobs to do, but we are well content now that life is returning to the borders in an explosion of growth.

Quite sculptural for a home made plant support

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything"
William Shakespeare