Well my relief at my healed pressure sore on my right ischium was short lived – as a few weeks later the skin broke down again and I was back on bed rest. I hadn’t been doing too much and I was really looking after my skin but, it did what it did. It is soooo frustrating. My fixed wheelchair was dropped off on the 15th October (finally!!) so now I have to wait to be ‘pressure mapped’ at a wheelchair assessment to make sure my wheelchair cushion is actually doing the job of relieving pressure on my butt, and to check that the wheelchair is set up right for me. I have already had to drop the footplates by 1.5cm.
Harry did the vine weevil nematode application and I now have Amy (gardener) to help with the garden. Hopefully my skin will toughen up soon and I can get back outside again. All I have managed to do these last few months is keep the patio watered and the houseplants alive. I did have time when I was up to pot-up some crocus and narcissi.
At the end of September I noticed in the pond some weird looking thing so I fished it out to see what it was. It turned out to be a fruiting body of a water lily. I have never seen one before so I chopped it off and brought it into the conservatory and kept it under water. It turned into a gelatinous mass within the red casing. The gel dissolved away to reveal the seeds. It was very smelly so I just threw it out (I don’t need any more water lilies anyway).
Water lily fruiting body.Water lily seeds surrounded in gelatinous material.
Back in March this year I went along to a talk about ferns by Heather McHaffie and she very kindly gave out a few cuttings from a hare’s foot fern. I got a couple of cuttings and it is only now starting to grow fronds. Boy do you have to be patient with these things. I do have a more dainty version of hare’s foot fern so I am so pleased that this is growing quite happily now.
Hare’s foot fern rhizome cutting.
There is still plenty of colour in the garden: still flowering are the Japanese anemones, verbena, geranium (Rosanne), persicaria, guara, fuchsia, cyclamen, erigeron, a few roses, viburnum, and even a few verbascum.
Verbena bonariensis
There are loads of pink berries on the rowan (Pink pagoda), bright orange crab apples (Everest), and the deep purples of the acer and heucheras are looking great as are the red seed heads of the miscanthus (Red chief).
Crab apples (Everest).Miscanthus (Red chief)Persicaria amplex {Blackfield).Purples, greens and splash of gold.
Some gold foliage of some ferns and the hakenechloa grass bring some bright as well as the silvery foliage of the snow in summer. On the patio the marigolds are still flowering and the pink buds are developing on the skimmia (Rubella) although the leaves are looking a bit yellow so probably needs an ericaceous feed.
Rambling patio rose.Marigold.
Storm Amy came along and happily only one large branch crashed down and flew over the garden up to the end of the patio but nothing was squashed. The top part of the clematis support came down but the clematis itself clung on so another job to sort out.
Up-date on the wheelchair issue – the NHS has supplied me with a temporary wheelchair for now and has ordered a new frame for the NEW broken one. I can use it but it isn’t great (I won’t go into details) but it does mean that I can now get back into the garden woo-hoo! Lots of weeding and dead-heading but mostly trying to keep it watered as we have had no rain for weeks. A couple of tiny drizzly showers do not count as rain as it didn’t even wet the paths. I also found out that the very leaky hose gun was the cause of my increasing right shoulder pain that spread from upper traps, up my neck and also across my collar bone to my SC joint. The reason for this was that I was trying to use the hose without getting soaked so this meant having my right arm out at awkward angles and turning my hand inwards to prevent the water running up my sleeves. Couple that with the weight of the hose and you get lots of pain. One new hose gun later and most of the pain on that side has diminished.
I do have to be more mindful when performing any gardening procedures as I am right handed I tend to lean over to that side, and it was my right ischium that had the pressure sore. I do try to use my left hand more for doing tasks but I am so much quicker and better with my right.
At this time of year a lot of summer flowering plants are going over (verbascum, geums, hardy geraniums, lavender, and honeysuckle). There are still plenty of flowering plants here at the end of August though: cyclamen flowers have appeared before the leaves, persicaria (I have white, pink and deep red varieties), Japanese anemones, verbena, some hellebores, gaura, agastache, mint, roses(especially Munstead wood and Gertrude Jekyll), eupatorium, selinum wallichianum, fuchsia, erigeron, miscanthus red chief, and some heathers. Some have just a few sporadic flowers such as weigela, hebe and viburnum. And there is plenty of colour from the pink rowan berries (the berries of Sorbus hupehensis Pink pagoda are almost the same shade of the Persicaria affinis superba flowers that have gone over), bright red honeysuckle berries, black elder berries and orangey coloured crab apples, foliage from all of the different coloured ferns and heucheras, succulents like sempervivum chocolate kiss and the deep purple – almost black aeonium voodoo, the garnet coloured acer and the brightness of the silvery white ground cover of snow in summer.
Pink rowan berries and persicaria.
The Japanese anemones Montrose are looking great. There are white ones on the other side of this bed (Whirlwind) that are slightly smaller than these.
Japanese anemones ‘Montrose’
The cool, shady side of the raised bed is mainly different shades of green at this time of year along with the garnet acer.
Cool shades of green and calming.Pulmonaria ‘Lewis Palmer’ spotty leaves.
In the stumpery the spotty foliage of the Pulmonaria ‘Lewis Palmer’ is still looking good. That has been over the whole spring and summer and it is just starting to look a bit tired now.
Garden at the end of August 2025
Right now I am moving pots around on the patio so plants that have gone over can have a rest while the ones still in flower can show off. I am removing any annual plants from the pots to free them up for the bulb planting come September. It will be mostly narcissi and crocus. Any plant going to seed I will collect the seeds from just in case they don’t survive the winter. I can store the plants under the bench that way they shouldn’t get too much rain during the winter. I am still not sure about the rose ‘Jubilee celebration’ on the patio as it has very droopy roses on it. They look great when they first open and are facing upward but then they just droop. I had put it in a large pot and it is kept well watered so it is just the nature of that rose.
Droopy rose ‘Jubilee celebration’.
On my rounds of watering in the garden I noticed some plants are just not thriving in certain situations. Our next door neighbours took at a couple of trees which has led to more sunshine on one side of the stumpery but I had planted some things that liked shade so I really must move them to a more suitable place. The corkscrew hazel is creating an umbrella affect and the plants underneath are not getting enough rain water (it is also using up water as it has longer roots). The primulas will have to be moved.
Dry thirsty primulas.
I have checked my bulbs and only 2 were duds – they were soft – so the rest are ready to plant once the pots are washed.
Just as I was starting to get up for a little more time as my pressure sore on my right ischium was healing – my flipping wheelchair broke! Arrrrrrgh! The left hand part of the frame/castor clamp has sheered so the castor will not work as it is sitting at a jaunty angle. I have no idea if this can be repaired or if I have to get a new wheelchair (supplied by NHS) so I have no idea how long this will all take. I do have a very old (39 year old) wheelchair as a spare but it isn’t quite the same height etc as my new one so I am reluctant to use it as I am having to do lots of transfers on and off the bed and loo and my ischium is still very delicate and I don’t want to bash it during a transfer. Harry has managed to do a temporary fix so I can still use the broken chair around the house but I have to be very gently with it so I can’t even go into the conservatory or patio in case it gets caught between the slabs in the grouting. My shoulder is still very painful and all this bed rest is not doing it any favours. For now all I can do is just keep the houseplants happy. The irony is that I was using a perfectly good 15 year old wheelchair but the NHS said it wasn’t fit for purpose and scrapped it – haha it was the brand new chair that broke!
Break of castor clamp.Broken area on the clamp for the castor.Broken part.Temporary repair.
I garden daily as I not only have a front and back garden, but also a houseful of plants, a conservatory, and a patio with loads of plants in them. This takes a lot of work and therefore time. With any disability you have to pace yourself so as not fall ill or make your disability worse. One of the symptoms of Sjogrens disease is fatigue and another is pain. In Scotland usually I am trying to get as much done as possible outside on good weather days, and concentrate on the indoor plants when the weather is inclement. Do too much one day and you will regret it for the next few days. This used to work well but these days I can only do so much at a time and have to pace myself so the jobs soon mount up. These last few weeks have been awful as I have a pressure sore on my right ischium. Being paraplegic, with no feeling or movement below the bra line, means I have to check my skin daily for signs of pressure sores or indeed anything else going on with my skin. Even though I check every day I did not recognise this particular sign (dry flaky skin) as the beginnings of a pressure sore. I did catch it early, but is still means that I now have to have many hours of bed rest! NO GARDENING! I can get up for a few hours per day and have to lift my behind many times to relieve the pressure on my ischium. So as you can imagine I haven’t been able to prune some of the shrubs that have finished flowering, dead-head, weed, do slug patrols or generally keep the garden tip-top. The patio has grass going to seed in every crack and the flowers and weeds are seeding all over the place. I had just bought a few plants and haven’t been able to plant them out yet. I have been up just enough to keep up with watering the house plants, conservatory and patio. It is sooooo very frustrating. I will definitely have to get continuous help with the gardening in future as I just can’t do it myself anymore. Harry has helped with the dead-heading but he doesn’t like gardening AT ALL and he is busy with his own hobbies. So I am off to find someone who is reliable, knows a bit about actual gardening – not just mowing the lawn, likes gardening, and won’t charge too much. Wish me luck.
The weather has been a mixed bag over June: some hot sunny days, some overcast muggy days, showers and wind, but on the whole not too bad.
The hebe has had a trim to keep it a neat shape and to dead-head the flowers. The tree heath (Erica arborea ‘Estrella gold’ ) has had a good chop as it was shading out some other plants a bit too much. The deutzia ‘Mont rose ‘ has finished flowering now and has had the old flowering stems chopped. I will have to give the mock orange (Philadelphus) the same treatment as it has just finished flowering. As we have had a reasonable amount of rain I can put down some more mulch to help retain some of that moisture. A few of the hardy geraniums have had a chop (later than the Chelsea chop time up here in Scotland) as there is a lot of damage on their foliage caused by the geranium sawfly (Ametastegia carpini). The tiny holes eaten all over their leaves look like lace work. They don’t appear to damage the flowers though so I will just have to tolerate them.
The Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ is not looking great and I might just ditch it. The slugs have really gone for the ones in the stumpery and the only one that isn’t too bad has an upturned hanging basket over it to stop the pigeons getting at it. I have had to move the new heucheras from the back area of the garden to the bed that gets a little more sun. Again the slugs have really gone for them so I will need to give them a bit of protection until they get going.
Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ damage.
I have been finding a lot of mushrooms in my latest batch of multi-purpose potting compost which can be very unsightly in amongst the pot plants, even in the house plants that I topped up with it. I don’t normally buy Westland multipurpose but my usual compost was unavailable. It is horrid stuff with huge lumps of wood and other bits and bobs in it, including small stones and bits of plastic, and it doesn’t retain moisture well. I will NOT be getting it again. The mushrooms were easily removed so the pots don’t looks so bad but the mycelium will still be in the compost.
Mushrooms found in compost in a pot of poppy seedlings.Mushrooms in compost with poppy seedlings.Mushrooms found in the compost of a house plant.
There are a few gaps in the borders just now so I am moving some of my potted plants from the patio into the borders to fill in some of these gaps. These small terracotta pot filled with succulents can cope in this area but I have larger pots with ferns in the shadier areas. I do have to remember and move them again before any bulbs come up in spring time.
Terracotta pots with succulents under a berberis.
I have removed a lot of the violets in the stumpery because, although they create good ground cover, they had loads of seed-heads about to pop, and they are competing with the ajuga (more ground cover), and covering over some of the self-seeded honesty.
Another good ground cover plant which is flowering away now, and the bees love it, is the Campanula garganica ‘Blue diamond Adrianic’ . I should probably cut it back a bit once it has gone over.
Campanula growing around the base of garden steps.
There are loads of pollinators about and they are loving all the the flowers just now: agastache, campanula, cirsium, astilbe, achillea, roses, alchemilla, giant cowslips, geranium, foxgloves, catmint, lavender, heuchera, verbascum, ragged robin, astrantia, bisort, marigolds, cistus, honeysuckle, spiraea, and thalictrum. I planted 3 yellow thalictrum from the same nursery at the same time only a few feet apart and one is growing way taller than the other two, and has more purple in the stems. I love the fluffy, yellow clouds of flowers that the thalictrum produce and loads of pollinators love them too. It is normally covered in them but not when I took this photo apparently!
Fluffy, yellow clouds of flowers on thalictrum.Astrantia
The wet corner is looking good just now but the rodgersia has not flowered this year. I think it is too shaded out by the huge royal fern. The soil is clay and there is a down-pipe just above the rodgersia. The fern and weigelia are covering the rodgersia.
Wet corner of the garden.
The moss roses and ‘Munstead wood’ rose have finally begun to flower and are looking great, but I still can’t believe how many roses I have had, and continue to have, on ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ – it is such a good do-er.
Loads of roses on Gertrude Jekyll.
I have in the past regretting planting certain plants and one of them was lily-of-the-valley. They look and smell absolutely gorgeous but they spread like mad and invaded all of the back border and the raised bed. They got right into the roots of other plants so I had to be ruthless and take the whole lot out. I would like to keep just a pot of them in the conservaorty for their lovely scent. In spring I planted out some Allium hair bulbs as I was curious about the flower heads. They look like little aliens with tentacles but when I asked facebook how far apart I should plant them everyone said that they regret ever planting because they spread all over the place! It certainly doesn’t say that on the RHS site but now I am wondering if I made the right choice, and don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I have just put them in pots so I have easy access to them to dead-head before they produce seeds. That is the plan anyway.
Allium hair flower head just opening.
And now the heat wave is over so back to normal for the time being – thank goodness as I don’t do well in the heat. The heat makes me breathless but It helps my arthritis, however it wreaks havoc with dry eyes, nose and mouth, and my eyes are now sensitive to the light which means I have to wear amber tinted wrap around sun glasses in bright sunshine. I already wear a large brimmed hat and sometimes even a nose protector! What must I look like? I get bitten by some beasties just underneath the brim of my hat and these bites are incredibly itchy to begin with and make little red blotches all across my forehead. They are not midge bites -I can hear the zzzzzzz of the midges coming and their bites are raised. So I wonder what July holds for the garden?
You can smell the scent from almost anywhere in the garden and I am sure it has enticed the bees. Last month I mentioned that I hadn’t seen that many bees about but I am glad to say there are loads around now! I do try to have something in flower each month for our pollinators and there are usually flowers in abundance in June for them. They are all over the lavender, deutzia, elder, philadelphus, weigelia, primroses, honeysuckle, syringia, hardy geraniums, erigeron, foxgloves, astrantias, geums and some of the roses. In fact I was watching bees going in and out from one of the holes in the raised bed wall.
Bee flying into the hole in the wall.
Clematis Montana is over but the large purple flowered warszawski Nike is still in flower.
Clematis warszawski NikeGeums next to chimney pot.
The periwinkle, veronica and syringia have just gone over as have the aquilegia and some of the primroses so I am in the process of cutting those back.
The ‘Generous gardener’ rose over the back arch is looking great especially beside the pink flowers and dark purple leaves of the elder. ‘Zepharine drouhin ‘is still hanging on over the side arch – I keep saying I will just get rid of it as it has been pruned badly in the past and doesn’t look great. ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ is looking very healthy and covered in blooms and buds as is the little pink rambling rose growing up an old post, and rose ‘Jubilee celebration’ is looking great too in the large pot. The moss roses, ‘William Lobb’, have lots of buds on yet to open as well as ‘Munstead wood.’ They get a bit more shade than the others.
Gertrude Jekyll rose.Zephrine drouhin still hanging on.Honeysuckle on the arch.Primula and philadelphus.
I love foxgloves in the garden and I have planted out some ‘Sutton’s apricot’ this year. I know they will be rather promiscuous with the others I have but that is ok. Just now I have a couple that have pale pink flowers at the bottom that look very pale yellow in bud.
Foxgloves with pale pink flowers and pale yellow buds.
The ferns have all got going by now and are looking as fab as ever. I have been trying to get rid of the Arisarum proboscoideum (mouse plant) in the raised bed as it is getting rather rampant and despite being sprayed half a dozen times it is still managing to grow? It has escaped the raised bed and has got into the border and now it has popped up in amongst a geranium.
Athyrium otophorum okanum fern.Rosy Buckler fern.Polystichum setiferum plumosa and deutzia.
I love hardy geraniums as they can cope with almost anything and I have quite a few different varieties:’ Rozanne’, cantabrigiense ‘St Ola’, ‘Birch double’ (lilac), cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’, Himalayense blue , ‘Wargrave pink’, macrorrhizum ‘Bevan’s variety’, pratense ‘Midnight Reiter’, Geranium x riversleaianum ‘Mavis Simpson’, and my newest addition is ‘Vision’ light pink (after seeing it on Gardeners world). Some of these have other names but that just confuses everything. Here are a few of them.
Years ago I planted a hydrangea petiolaris beyond the wall at the end on the garden, against the wire fence. It gets very little in the way of maintenance and it has suddenly decided it likes it there and is thriving. I am hoping to train it all the way along the fence eventually. It might keep some of the weed seeds from the golf course out.
Hydrangea petiolaris beyond the back wall.
In the conservatory I noticed a few weird looking areas on my old lady cactus. It may be about to produce pups – why now – I have had it for many years and I don’t think I have changed anything in its care routine?
Strange whorls on old lady cactus – possibly pupping?Close-up of whorls.
A couple of ladybirds and a butterfly from today.
Ladybird on achillea.Ladybird on ligusticum scoticum.Red admiral on philadelphus.
Right now it is sunny, muggy and windy but tomorrow is meant to be very different indeed. Rain, thunder and lightning are predicted so I have moved a few more vulnerable plants under the table just in case.
View of the garden from the patio.Right side of patio.Left corner of patio.
Goodness – where did April go? I was so busy getting the seedlings and plants ready for the Duddingston Kirk Garden Sale and keeping everything watered that I forgot to blog! It has been a mixed bag of weather but we had a little bit of rain – enough to get the vine weevil nematodes over the whole garden, patio and conservatory (and out the front too). However Scotland has seen the driest start to the year since 1964! I have been watering things like mad and soon there may be a hosepipe ban so that will not be great. The front garden just has to fend for itself but I have planted a few small plug plants and seedlings out the back so they need to be kept moist. The poor rhododendron doesn’t like this dry weather. Some plants have been early yet others have been a bit late but on the whole most things have come up that should have with the exception again the Gaura and a few of the Erigeron. I took cuttings of one potted Gaura that was on the patio so I can dot them about the garden in the summer. I sowed a few trays of seeds in the conservatory and on a windowsill but with mixed results. Some came through brilliantly, some just two seeds germinated from a whole packet, some didn’t germinate at all. The compost wasn’t great as it had lumps and sticks in it that I picked through to get most of it out but I really should have had seeding mix but everywhere was sold out.
I have noticed that all the plants that are usually covered in bees at this time of year just aren’t. There are a few bee out there but not nearly as many as there should be. I also noticed that there are more scarlet lily beetles about and they are now going for the fritillaries.
This year the Narcissi Segovia came up fine and was not eaten by slugs and snails as soon as they emerged from the soil. I had potted them up on the patio instead of in the stumpery. On the whole the very dry start to the year has meant far fewer slugs about – woohoo!
Narcissi segovia
Some of the flowers that have gone over are: the pink corydalis, most of the narscissi, Erica ‘Westwood yellow’, tulips, fritillaries, berberis, erythronium and cherry blossom, pasque flower.
There is loads of colour in the garden with the new foliage of the astilbes, acers, veronica, , aquilegia, tree heath, honeysuckle leaves, ferns emerging, the blues and pinks of the pulmonaria and forget-me-nots, bright purple viola with green/purple leaves. Bright yellow alpine cinquefoil in one of the troughs along with a stonecrop. Bright yellow and green of a couple of the grasses. The periwinkles are still flowering (white, purple and mauve varieties). The epimedium sulfurum is just going over in the front garden as is the pink epimedium grandiflorum ‘Rose Queen’ in the raised bed in the back garden. I only have one wood anemone left (I think one of them was dug up along with a chunk of fern that we were cutting back). ( I did try growing more from corns but they drowned.) There is white saxifrage on one side of the stumpery and red saxifrage on the other. We are trying to make carpets of saxifrage but something keeps digging it up! Also flowering in the stumpery is the clematis montana growing up the garage wall. The aquilegia pop up all over the garden and they are looking great just now. The rowan has plenty flowers again this year. We took out most of the honesty as it was taking over the stumpery.
Red saxifrage with purple sempervivum and acer.
We have had to put a cage around the choisya as something keeps eating it and I think it might be pigeons. We have put a bit of a cage over the brunnera too for the same reason. If they still get nibbled then we will know that it either slugs/snails or some other beastie that can get through the holes.
Caged ChoisyaScarlet lily beetles on fritillaries.
I also found some type of oak gall on my little oak seedlings. They are actually very pretty and although they don’t usually cause much harm to the plants I took them off as the plant was so small.
Oak galls on oak seedlingOak galls
The clay soil area just under the patio wall is looking ok and the astilbes will be in flower soon as will the rest of theses plants.
Perennials in the clay soil under the patio wallView of garden from patioStumpery one sideStumpery other side
The weather is going to get cooler soon and we might even get some rain so I will have a bit more time on my hands instead of the constant watering.
I was going crazy trying to open the child-proof caps on these bottles of plant food (due to my arthritic fingers) that I was thinking of decanting them into another container once someone had opened them for me. However, I found this easy hack to help open child-proof cap son YouTube the other day. There are probably a few more hacks out there but this one worked for these type of caps. The caps have two parts to them so this hack joins the two together using thumb tacs. When I used only one tac the twisting motion to remove the cap just pushed the tac out. This was solved once a piece of black tape was put over the top of it. Or you can put in two tacs – one opposite the other – and this works without the use of the tape. On larger caps you can try and lever off the top part of the cap from the lower one and just keep the one part on the bottle or jar. I couldn’t lever these ones off. But this hack works!
It is still very chilly out there with threats of frost. We did have a couple of lovely mild, sunny days and it was so good to get back out in the garden. We chopped the pond lily in half as it was taking over the pond and we dug out half of the rush too as it was getting too big. Just in time too as the frogs started to arrive – this year 8/3/25 I have been keeping a not over the last few years of when the first spawn appears in the pond:
22/3/18
27/2/19
05/2/20
15/3/21
18/3/22
13/3/23
19/3/24
08/3/25
The photo isn’t great but I counted about 20 frogs and can see about 8 or 9 dollops of frogspawn so am happy with that. I haven’t spotted any newts this year yet.
Frogs in March
There are a few splashes of colour now mainly with the hellebores, some narcissi, crocuses and viburnum. There are a few low branches of the viburnum with lovely scented flowers that are within my reach so I can really get a nice whiff going past. There are big yellow daffodils out the front but tiny yellow narcissi out the back. The tiny ones are the Tete-a-tetes and the clump in the raised bed are doing well, whereas the clump just a metre or so away in the border has had the flower heads eaten.
Viburnum flowers on low branch.Tete-a-tete in the raised bed.Tete-a-tete flower heads eaten.
I am blaming the wood pigeons but it may actually be mice or slugs too.
The same goes for some of the crocuses flower heads The ones in the garden are doing well, but the ones planted int the small trough on the patio have been eaten.
Crocus just about to flower in the small trough.Crocus flower heads eaten in the small trough.
At least the crocus indoors came up without being eaten by anything giving some colour indoors. I did order some ‘Gypsy girl’ and was given ‘Cream beauty’ instead which was rather annoying but they are pretty.
Crocuses in the conservatory.Crocus Cream beauty.Crocus Cream beauty – very nice but just not as nice as Gypsy girl.
I had also planted some in the garden in front of my favourite stone which is covered in blotchy lichen.
Crocus Cream beauty in front of lichen covered stone.
Although the sun is out just now it is still bitterly cold so spring proper will be a few more weeks yet so still in my thermals for the time being.
January was a very mixed bag but mostly cold and wet with brief glimpses of sunshine. We had to cope with storm Eowyn by bringing in some of the patio pots and hiding the little ones in amongst the larger ones in case they blew away. The only damage as far as we could see was the spinning chimney cowl from the sitting room chimney came off and bounced to just behind the car so we were pretty lucky. The rear of the house backs onto the golf course and we have been identifying the trees likely to get damaged and informing the green keepers. Basically they did nothing and a couple of ash trees have had very large branches breaking off over the years so we paid for some work to remove the worst of the large branches that were overhanging our garden.
A very tall beech tree had some damage in 2022 when it broke by about 1/3, then storm Eowyn broke it again and the large bits of trunk fell right up to our back fence along with loads of large broken branches.
Beech tree before 2022Broken beech tree 2022Fallen beech limb 2022Fallen beech limbs 2025Broken beech tree 2025Broken beech tree and limbs 2025
The garden is still looking a bit dull just now, however, the crocuses and cyclamen are bringing some much need colour indoors.
Succulents and crocusesCyclamen and crocusesCyclamen and crocuses
I have the fleece ready to pull over the plants when the temperature outside falls, and there is a small portable oil radiator we can put on at a low peep to keep the temperature from falling bellow 50C. It will be a few more weeks yet before things start to warm up.
