It is about this time of year as all the seeds that were sown have started to poke their heads through the compost to view the outside world that I realise, as always, I have been far too adventurous and that I will have more than a tight squeeze to get everything when potted on into the greenhouse.  It is just that when I am choosing what to sow I am always tempted into just one more packet, and of course you can never tell until you open them just how many seeds there will be or how well they will germinate.  This year has been so far very successfully which is why I am facing this problem - again!  We sell a good deal of plants when we open for the National Garden Scheme and I also sell plants to raise money for out Gardening Club but that does not solve the pressure of space NOW.  All the experts are right when they say however big your greenhouse is you can always use a little more space. 

Can you believe that it is Easter so soon.  My work rate in the last week has been slowed by twisting an ankle going downstairs but it is on the mend now so things are getting back to normal.  I have just, and I do mean just, finished putting a new bed into the garden.  It is a small bed to mirror one put in last Autumn which has in it three roses.  This new bed now how three Red Hot Pokers in it that have grown too large for their previous position.  I am pleased with the end result and it has left me with some turf which tomorrow will be used to "patch" areas where the Dobie bitch has been.  Now that is what I call re-cycling!

We are like others experiencing high winds which are causing some problems and a good deal of clearing up.  This is proving a challenge as I have managed to badly twist my ankle rushing downstairs (to get out into the garden of course) and had to spend an afternoon with my foot in a bowl of iced water.  It did the trick but not a nice experience.  Much banged up I and the under gardener went to a reception for the Shropshire NGS where those who are opening their gardens meet and collect paperwork and just have a get together with the County Organiser.  It bring it home just how close June is.

We have a lot of Pulmonaria in the woodland but the problem is it is growing with ground elder.  I want to move it to other places in the garden but of course I do not want to move the ground elder as well.  So I have dug it up and spent some time trying to disentangle it from the burgeoning elder.  I have then split it and put it for the time being into pots so that I can monitor the progress.  I was pleased that the three of four clumps I dug up have given me now 21 plants but time will tell if they are residing in those pots on their own! 

No, not that kind of bank but the bank at the front of the cottage.  Now fully cleared (with the help of the chainsaw) we await a wooden wall to be built and in the meantime I am pulling the ivy off it.  Years and years of ivy off it and I am doing it a three trugs full a day, any more and I should go crazy.  Most of the difficulty come from the fact it is at such a steep angle.  I am, however, releasing all sorts of things such as wild primroses, ferns, bluebells and foxgloves so without much effort it will give quite a show on its own.  I am putting all sorts of things to one side to plant up when it is full cleared and then the party can begin.