Tidying, Planting and Sunflowers Shooting up!

 Our competition Sunflower Seedlings are shooting up - they have now been potted up and are out in the Betty MacKenzie greenhouse.

 This week, we've been tidying the old pots away in the OJ greenhouse.

 Our Cercidiphylum japonicum tree has started to come into leaf.

 On Wednesday we planted more summer flowers into the barrels to welcome visitors into the garden: foxgloves, lupins and poppies.

 It has been sunny most of the week, though still bitterly cold!  Thanks also to Alastair for dropping off three bags of compost for us!  Rhiannon and Vicki brought them up to the garden in the wheelbarrow.

We have also put out the seed potatoes to "chit" - this means they will grow green shoots ready to get a head start when the soil warms up enough to plant them out.