Salvia cuttings, sweet cicely and butterflies

Weather has restricted what I can do in the garden, so I have been potting up salvia cuttings and sowing seeds. On a brighter note I have seen 4 species of butterfly this week

I hope you all had a lovely Easter and managed to dodge the rain. We experienced the full brunt of Storm Nelson - it delivered high winds, hail, thunderstorms and almost 40mm of rain!!! A further 12mm came on Good Friday and even more on Monday.

I was reading Ben Probert’s Instagram post, @bensbotanics, and he made the observation that gardens open to the public over Easter might not be as perfect as visitors would hope due to the unprecedented rain for the last 9 months, saying trhat despite the best efforts by their gardeners, grassed areas were saturated and not as resilient against foot traffic and daffodils had been hit by slug damage. I see the same problems around my own garden, just two of us walking along a path every day has created a mud bath that is now subject to compaction.

Slugs …..

Sorry, the topic of slugs keeps on popping up. I decided to go the nemaslug route to get some control early in the season as the numbers of slugs in the kitchen garden were of epidemic proporti…