Spring garden pickings

Being able to pick enough flowers from the garden to make a proper bouquet is making me ridiculously happy.  I may have cheated and bought the hyacinths but the rest - the hellebores, euphorbia, blossom and daffodils are all grown by my own fair hands..   Sarah Raven eat your heart out.

Spring Visions

I've been feeling quite green fingered recently and spent most of last week repotting primroses and hyacinths into pretty pots and tea cups. My lovely friend Charlotte, who works for the best florist in the world - Scarlett and Violet, taught me a simple trick which makes store bought plants look they're from another (very chic) planet. 

If you're potting into terracotta pots, simply snip off the tops of the plastic pot and plop them in.  You can then add some more soil or even better, some moss, onto to hide any of the joins...

Christmas cyclamen.

Last weeks efforts.   Primroses, narcissi and hyacinths.