Mostly I have been mowing

It has been a lovely dry week and although the forecast was for it to get a lot colder it was very pleasant - tee shirt weather.
At Mere the tulips were out and most of the seeds I sowed were up in the greenhouse. I will start on the cuttings next week before we go on holiday next week.

We are going to Wales next Saturday to walk more of Offas Dyke which we are looking forward to very much.I will take loads of photos.

We have made progress with our own garden clearing the hedges and getting the weeds under control.As soon as we have some more flowers I will take some pictures.

At Milborne Port the really exciting news is that I am to take over the vegetable garden from Ted who is retiring - no extra hours - not that I have any to spare but now that I have got the main garden under control and the new gardener will help me to keep it tidy as part of his training I will have quite a bit more variety - the owners are keen to try heritage vegetables and mix them with cut flowers to give an attractive 'potager' effect.This will mean that my week will have a nice mix covering just about every type of gardening.

We are hoping to collect more plants for our own garden while we are on holiday.I will be looking for alpine plants and Linda will be looking for more unusual herbs to add to her growing collection.

Spring at last

I have been looking at my posts for last year and realised how gloomy I had got.This will certainly explain the   long gap since the last post. Last Saturday we went to a gig at South Petherton (Birds of Chicago - check them out on Spotify - seriously cool!) with some friends that we have made since we moved to Sherborne. Matt is also a gardener and was curious to know how I was faring in the awful weather we have had over the last year. Apparently it had made him very depressed and demotivated. It did make me feel better in a strange way to know I was not the only one who felt like that.
Having our own garden and working for much nicer people has made me get my enthusiasm back for my job. At Mere the hard cold work of last autumn is paying off as all the bulbs are now bursting into life.

At Stowell the little pug wants to help out all the time she is called Peggy but is known by me as The Pegster and likes to be driven round in the trailer - she likes to tour round like the Pope.

Yesterday we went for a walk at Stourhead the board giving permission to walk dogs after 4pm was very funny. I think it was a bit lost on the coach load of Germans who were setting off for a walk round the grounds.