Big Bumblebees and Primroses

 Well March has bounced in with glorious sunshine, warm days, butterflies and huge bumblebees. 

 

It seems less than a week ago that I sat with a blanket over my knees looking out on yet another grim day. But how quickly it changes.

And I am well aware it can change back!! 

An update on the seed snails ... I peeped yesterday as I couldn`t wait to see what was happening.

I carefully unrolled the first sweetpeas I sowed and this is what I found. The roots were coming out at the bottom. I rolled it back up. Absolutely no need to do anything just yet.

Since then we have done quite a lot more.
 

Here are some tomato seedlings.

Tiny tiny pink gypsophila.

Cosmos.

And lots more doing very well.

 

Another experiment is on the go. I saw this idea on facebook. Dahlia tubers (small ones) are placed in ziplock bags with a little bit of soil and sprayed with a bit of water. At night I have closed them up. In the bags are my favourite dahlias that I want to increase.

When the tubers start to shoot I am hoping for cuttings.

In the past I have used large open trays with soil and laid out the tubers. But the bags are space-saving.
 

Indoors the potato tubers are spread out on egg boxes in my craft room. This is to develop the eyes and we call it chitting.

 

In Aldi last week, I found these lovely plants .... aubrietia and arabis .... £1.89 each. I think they look very pretty in this coloured pot.

 

And I am particularly pleased with these mini-dafs .... 

Tete a tete deluxe.

 

 

Finally a little bunch of native primroses which grow wild in our garden, reminding me of primrosing expeditions when we were children and also in remembrance of my Grandad Magan whose birthday is today.