Welcome to the 2010 season.
Like
all gardeners we’re looking forward to - fingers crossed! – a much
better summer this year. It has to be!
We
have already begun our gardening year, even in the snows of January. We sow
about 150 different pots of seeds between us in about 10 weeks. At first they
sit demurely in their pots, tiny stalks with 2 – 4 leaves. Then, to start
with, the odd pot fills with green shoots and needs pricking out. Then another
and another and another, like an avalanche they come and, before you know
it, the shed is filled and the greenhouse is bursting with seed trays and
modules. THEN we look up from delicately pricking out a pinch of Linaria
triornithophora (which has amazingly turned into 86 plantlets!!) and earnestly
agree that next year, we’ll sow fewer seeds. Yeah! Whatever!
So
February slips away with icy fingers – you can’t prick out in gloves. March
and April will be the busiest months of the year, as we have to clean and repot
our current nursery stock, clean up the beds and borders and, oops, mustn’t
forget to pot on and on those seedlings.
May
will see the start of our ‘Open Season’ when we open regularly for the NGS.
In June the Garden Visits start. We just love these days! People are so
appreciative of all we have done and of the variety of plants we offer, that all
the cold, hard, long days of the winter are worth it. Besides, it gives us a
chance to do what we really love the best – talk plants.
Some
of the groups who book opt to have home-made cakes and we always bake for our
NGS days. We try to have a choice of 4 -5 varieties, so baking is a big part of
the summer months for us, usually late into the evenings. There will be quite a
challenge this year as we have a group from
Although
it’s pretty much non-stop all summer, there’s nothing quite like strolling
down the paths on a bright, still, summer’s evening with the sun a spectacular
orange-pink over the hill opposite. Everywhere you look there are flowers, some
in bud with a promise of what’s to come, others in full bloom and others now
withering.
Aaah
well…………. time to start dead-heading!
.
Harrells Hardy Plants
Office, 15 Coxlea Close
Evesham, Worcs
WR11 4JS
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