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"In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation." Louise Beebe Wilder

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Some pickings from the garden this evening.. . Today I’ve spent a few hours with my lovely friend Gabrielle, she is helping me plan the cutting garden for this summer. I’m getting very excited and daunted about the whole thing.. Im aware it’s going to be a challenge, and Im hoping and preying we can pull it off! .. I know..we will.. we will.. The choice of flowers for cutting is vast, and we’ve had to rein ourselves in from the temptation of buying everything! So the long lists have been trimmed, finalised and we are now sourcing places to buy.. this is where it really starts to get scary.. wish me luck!! . . Flowers in this picture are Tulip ‘Exotic emperor’ Mixed varieties of Hellebores Narcissus ‘Ice Follies’ and ‘Falconet’

Making the most of today’s Spring equinox.. . By enjoying the warm sunshine, while gardening inside this beautiful space.. . Thankyou for your help and company @rosiefarey x

After a hectic couple of days, I went for a peaceful walk around the garden.. The light was perfect, with a calm , peaceful and almost eerie feel about the place. . Sadly the time to capture all of this is short.. (you can see more images in my stories).. so it’s a ‘Now or never’ moment! This was one of the best shots of the garden, that shows off Toms clipped beech hedges. We planted them as bare root twigs about ten years ago and Tom has kept them tightly clipped to achieve this neat look, that is pleasing to see all year round.

Are you a breakfast person? I definitely am! . I’ve been making my own granola for about 10 years, (that took some thinking!) thanks to @bellslewers for kindly sharing this recipe with me all those years ago. I’ve made all sorts of changes with the ingredients and measurements to make it my own. For some reason I still can’t get my boys to eat it.. probably too healthy for them..suggestions welcome! ..when we have friends, family or B&B guests to stay they love it..

I don’t mind gardening in the rain.. . As long as it’s not freezing cold and blowing a gale! The Phormium to the right of me hasn’t t been looking very happy recently, I debated moving it last year but never got round to it. . The second picture shows that I have attempted to cut out some the dead leaves, in hope to make it look better.. it didn’t much! . In picture 3 we made a final decision to use the digger to remove it. We will split and pot up the now dug out Phormium in hope to revive it. In its place is a Physocarpus ‘Lady in red’ that I planted a couple of years ago. Will you be out in your garden today?

The hidden gems in our woodland.. . I’m not normally the first one up in our house, but this morning for some unknown reason I was! Which means I’m to give the dogs their morning stroll, and yes I was in my pjs, with a big coat, scarf and wellies to hide it all! I didn’t go far just round the outside of the walled garden.. not the nicest of mornings, blustery with the odd busts of rain.. while keeping head stooped and trying not to get blown to bits I began to notice little pockets of blue muscari and sweet clumps of yellow primulas cushioned with the tiny fresh green feathery leaves of cow parsley.. all dotted at the base of the trees. Id already started to gather some daffodils for the guest room, so one hand was filling up.. the other hand was doing the picking.. where to put the rest I wanted to bring indoors too? You’ve guessed it.. my mouth, probably not cleaver but they are so tiny. It was worth it to see them here.. . I’ll be heading over to the @mostyngallery this afternoon then back home to garden and greet our guests later. Hope you have a lovely weekend planned. xx

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