shopping trip! yippee!

I like to buy locally grown things too. There's a nursery near here where they put labels on the plants, to say they were grown in South Wales. I'll buy those before any others :)

Nice selection of plants there Pat, I have some wild Geraniums they have just started in bud now, so looking forward to see them in flower, Your violets look very healthy, hope to see a picture when they are in flower;0)

hi, Hywel...i think the more we stick to native plants, the better it is for us all...i'm hoping these will survive attacks from nasty critters...and i love violets....

thanks, PP, it's so good to have something decided...we're expecting a week of rain, so they wo't be going in the ground right away, but soon.............

Thats the only kind of shopping I like Pat, we do use the big garden centres but there are also a couple of family owned nurseries on the edge of our town and we often use them as well, one has been in the same family for a very long time and its our favourite...
Raining here today, the only movement in my garden is from the birds, think they are enjoying the fact that the dogs and cats are indoors with me....

I like the smaller nurseries too and agree with others about native plants. Happy gardening, Pat.

Lincslass ... our weather is getting stranger by the minute...literally....yesterday started cold and damp, then turned to occasional drizzle, but by noon it started to warm up, and in less than 15 min. it had become uncomfortably hot and humid...took the dogs out for a run..tried to get them to walk, it was so hot, but they just trotted along, panting their little heads off....it's 6am right now, thinking of taking them out early, can't tell what we'll get today, and the weatherman often gets it wrong for us....i do wish things would settle down and behave!!!!

thanks, Tuesdaybear...i need all the encouragement i can get right now...more daffy have bloomed, and been ravaged by the squirrels...my neighbour [ a very nice, kind,helpful fellow] feeds them, his wife is handicapped, and seldom leaves the house, so i'm sure she gets a lot of pleasure from watching them...they don't have a garden...i can't fault them, but it does increase my challenges here...i might end up with an all green garden, instead of the cottage one i had in mind...oh well, green is good...have to checkout some GOY photos of evergreen gardens...they can be very peaceful.....