OMG it's cold!

I'm officially fed up with winter now....it's been frozen for nearly two and a half months and even the Snowdrops are looking dismayed. I don't think I can remember a winter quite as prolonged and without respite as this. Sadly there have definitely been some casualties along the way, the Anemones planted optimistically in October have almost all rotted off and still the Sweet Peas are looking dreadful. You've got to keep you're chin up though as it goes with the territory of working alongside nature. I'm sure there will be some pleasant surprises along the way as well doom and gloom.

Yay, hooray the new website for The Walled Garden www.thewalledgardenatmells.co.uk went live this week, we had lots of fun integrating Paypal as a safe and efficient mode for customers to pay for their bouquets. Hopefully it proves to be smooth and easy to use. I almost feel like I have birthed a new child.

At the moment I'm clearing and tidying all the beds in the garden and planning a 100ft rose garden with the view to becoming self sufficient in roses. I have to admit to having rather a wary relationship with roses, generally feeling that they are inhabited with a malevolent spirit intent on causing pain and injury to everyone and to me in particular. In precisely the same way that if there is a stinging nettle within 6ft of my location I am guaranteed to get stung if I find myself anywhere near a rose I end up lacerated and with tears in my eyes. However due to their unutterable beauty and the glamour and romance that they lend to any arrangement and also to their longevity of season I am willing to work on our relationship problems.

Looking at the long range forecast it seems as if these tundric conditions are set to remain until the end of February which means that March will be almost terrifying with its force. There is very little point in starting to sow seed until it has warmed up by a few degrees, at which point everything will go crazy and demand attention. The wait is almost painful.

At least the greenhouse is tidy..the Cornflowers( in shades of blue, black and red) are looking great and I've taken advantage of some of the brief interludes of above zero degrees to plant them out thereby leaving some space for the new seeds as they come along.

Two weeks until opening.....OMG indeed!