The wait just got a bit longer......

......for anyone who likes to visit Heale gardens in the Woodford Valley. The garden would usually open for displays of Snowdrops, drifting through the woods, alongside the river. We have had our lovely Snowdrops, as usual, but they came rather too early and with rather too much wet weather. Still, we are preparing for an opening in March. If you are local to Wiltshire and want to visit, please visit the http://healegarden.co.uk website, as times are subject to change.

Last week I helped HG to get some borders in the veg garden tidied up. Lots to cut back, Japanese Anemones, old Allium heads nestled amongst new Allium shoots, Digitalis, Clematis and Wisteria. The days were cold and I am finding the 'michelin man' layers of clothing a bore now! I can barely move!

We also planted the last of our bulbs (for now!), Ranunculus, which don't really look like bulbs at all. They look like crazy sea creatures. Once soaked they fatten up and swell to look like fat fingers. These will be white and we planted double rows, so they should look fab.

Our Lathyrus sown last week are coming up nicely. Doesn't take long in the warm greenhouse. HG ramped up the temp to get them going and reminded me that keeping a watering can of water in the hot greenhouse reduces the shock to the seedlings when they are thirsty. Top tip! HG is a master of detail.

I also spent time pruning roses in my Tuesday garden. My client has quite a few climbing up walls and fences. She likes to prune them quite hard, taking out most of the old and leaving a few new shoots to tie in. They will be wonderful. The Roses I pruned for her a while back have beautiful shoots ready to roll, oh the potential, that's what keeps us going. She has many, many pots around and about and the time had come to split some of them and refresh with new soil and food. Some of the pots seemed surgically attached to the plants inside but after much huffing and puffing, they broke free from each other......Agapanthus seems to create a solid wall of root.

Half term this week and I have planned to visit the allotment, weather permitting. My youngest has been given some Lentil seeds to grow so we shall add them to the (ever growing) pile of seeds to try out!