Green ambitions

Last year I didn't spend as much time as I would have liked in the garden. I also had a few disappointments I bought quite a few plug plants from Sarah Raven and unfortunately a lot of them did not produce flowers - may I was expecting too much from plug plants! Some fell victims to the slugs and snails who are proving to be my mortal enemy in this garden! The ones who have survived are looking decidedly sad.

This year I would like to grow more plants from seed, I already have some Larkspur, Lupins and Bishops flower...

Images from Sarah Raven

As well as Cornflowers, Quaking grass and Love-in-a-Mist...

Images from Sarah Raven

I quite enjoy this beginning of the year gardening, there's not all that much to do in the garden save a bit of tidying up and sowing the few seeds that are hardy enough to either be sown straight into the earth or into pots under cover.

But I can spend hours in an armchair looking through seed catalogues and making lists as long as my arm! I look through garden books and gaze at images of willow cloches and weathered herringbone brick patios and dream! Everything seems possible at this time of year in the garden and I look upon the coming growing season with hopes of spinach, kale, parsnips, radishes, potatoes, strawberries, blueberries, carrots and figs! (To name but a few!)

Wishing everyone the green fingers to equal their green ambitions!