Primroses, Compost, Sainfoin, Betony..and blue Poppies!

I absolutely love wild Primroses and they seem to pop up all over my garden and often in the strangest of places. But this spring, I’m thrilled to see that having thrown a load of wild flower seeds, a couple of years ago, on to the gravel patch at the front of our house, (see below), there are Primroses everywhere!

There must’ve been an abundance of Primrose seeds in that pack! 

And the plants sit happily and in keeping with the woodland behind …that is the very woodland that, last year, we battled to save from development…and we won the day! With a tree preservation order now covering the whole of the woodland ( thanks to my husband’s hard work and quick thinking), hopefully this delightful patch of land will not be built upon and we will continue to enjoy what it has to offer. 

On a slightly different note, I’m equally delighted because having bought extra compost bins last year, I was thrilled, yesterday, to see much compost coming out of the windows at the bottom… and oh my it was good stuff! Around six buckets full of lovely lush compost!

I rushed inside to spread the good news! 😁 I mean I will still have to buy some compost as I get through a lot at this time of the year, but my own home made compost filled a number of large pots and that has saved me some money. More importantly, it’s the sense of achievement and a feeling that I must be doing something right!

I then messaged Nich…well… like minds and all that, as I had no idea that he was doing the very same thing…and not to be outdone he replied with his own photo…😁

 

Meanwhile, in other garden news,  I’ve just potted 12 x Alchemilla Mollis, bare root plants, which I left soaking for 6 hours whilst we went out, earlier, and I’ve also sown a wild flower mixture, some Sainfoin, some Betony and a few extra Zinnia ( as a snail seemed to favour the first batch that I sowed ….grrr…🐌 )

Sainfoin, by the way, is so easy to grow and produces such a pretty flower…and it is a wonderful wild flower for pollinators. As well as that, it’s drought resistant.

                                    Sainfoin

Betony is a lovely wild plant and I do have a couple of plants in the garden. It’s also very attractive to pollinators. I’ve never sown this from seed and apparently it can be tricky as it needs a period of cold to break the seed’s dormancy. It’s not been that warm here, even though we’ve had sunny days…so I’m hoping that I might be successful. 

Betony

Finally, in my fridge, at the moment, are these…or should I say the seeds of these! I sowed these a couple of weeks ago. 

Now this WILL be a miracle if they germinate! Meconopsis Lingholm…and they actually featured on Gardeners’ World, on Friday, growing very successfully in The Lake District…but I’m in South Devon and so that’s a ‘different ball game’, as they say! We will give it a try anyway and see what happens! That’s the beauty of gardening!