At last, the gloom has lifted and it is a pleasure to be in the garden again.
Now is an ideal time to be planting trees and shrubs – we have a wide selection. Our annual stocktake is now posted on the website and we are adding interesting, new items whenever we find them.
Native wildflowers are popular too. We have cowslips, which like open grassland, and some wild primroses, which prefer shade, ready in a week or two. We are likely to have abundant primroses in our local hedgerows, and this might lead you to imagine they are easy to propagate – alas not so. The seed is viable for only a very short time; it more or less has to germinate where it falls. Left to their own devices, primroses spread well so the best plan is to buy a few plants and let them get on with it. Each plant is bi-sexual, but to prevent self-pollination, some present as female (pin) and some as male (thrum), so be sure to get some of each.
