I have spent today with the under gardener and good friends looking at other peoples gardens.  This both inspires me but also impresses on me just how much I have yet to learn.  I have got past the feeling that I should come back to the cottage and rip out everything and start again but it does make me restless to start making improvement not least in adding new plants.  I was asked on our NGS day about the amount of repeat planting that I do.  Well it is simply down to the fact that I have filled the garden with plants that I have found easy to propagate and now that the boarders are looking reasonable I shall start to remove many of the repeated plants and replace them with more unusual verities.  One of the things I enjoy about visiting gardens is the ability to buy plants that one has seen growing and that is exactly what has happened today.  With the sun due to shine tomorrow I shall be out that at the crack of sparrows to add my new plants to the garden.