The rare sun!

You have the best of all the winter flowering beauties B! And I don't have a single clematis in my garden!! This can't be right! I'm going to have to start scouring the bargain places for some.

Delightful...

Karen, I always associate you with Clematis - so get busy planting!

Thanks, Dd. It really is wonderful this year. :-D)

yes! I feel I am letting the clematis family down! I shall be getting a Niobe for my new arch....ASAP!

Have been and gone and done it lol just just bought our first lot of winter flowering clems, thank goodness for garden tokens!! had a field day......goodness knows where we are going to put them!!

I must admit I was wondering that, Dd. Would you like to borrow my magic shoehorn? ;-D

Lol...At least that's one thing I no longer require. Sadly, my funds are extremely low. This year is going to be about bargain hunting and propagation! I've spent a lot on trees, which have to be bought ASAP of course, but now I'm really skint! It's going to be a very different experience for me isn't it?! Lol!

Please Spritz a magic shoehorn would be the answer, with all this bad weather we are bound to lose a few plants......a case of win some lose some!!
Karen the trees are a priority, I am sure you will find ways and means....

Ha ha...I'm sure you're right! :)) I can't complain anyway...I have an incredible home, and I brought a huge number of plants with me. I've been out planting some of them today, and there are still a lot to get in the ground. I've noticed some huge clumps of bulbs coming up too...can't wait to see what else is sleeping under there!

Just noticed I misread your comment...I read it as 'have you been and gone and done it?' I thought you were asking whether I'd bought Niobe yet! Lol...you must have wondered what I was going on about! Should have gone to spec......!

Somebody shut me up!

Shut up, K! LOL.

You'll get there eventually, K. You have your priorities right. :-D)

:)) thank you. I got my three baby silver birches in yesterday, and a crab apple. It is starting to become my garden now......:)))

Good on you Karen, I love Silver Birch, like you we have 3 Jacquemonti planted in a group, well, they came like that, all 3 in one pot.... and one common Birch that sneaked a lift 13 years ago, found it growing in a pot which we bought from our last house, it stood 8 ins tall and it is now 30 ft .......so fast growing !!recently purchased a yellow leafed variety( just over 2 ft, so a fair bit of growing to do also) promised myself not to buy any more trees, whoever takes over this garden is going to hate us lol

lol! It will be a long time until that happens DD....unless you change your minds about moving. The Birches are planted a foot apart, as advised. They are like little twigs right now, only about 2 and a half feet high. But I shall get so much pleasure from watching them grow.

We did that some years ago, K, to make a multi-trunked tree. They're not quite there yet, but we were 'planting for the future'. They're about 12' tall now! I have to take the little shoots off the base of each one to keep the growth going up, if you see what I mean. It's hard to explain without showing you.

no, I know exactly what you mean B!

Good. It sounded a bit convoluted...so I'm glad you understood, K. :-)