Winning Again

Look what arrived in the post today

One of the prizes from a Giveaway hosted by Cindy of In A Garden

A book on pressing flowers and a very informative book on

fragrant herbs

plus a watercolour painting, done by Cindy, of a basket of roses

Thank you Cindy

The painting will be on the wall somewhere near to my computer

reminding me of Cindy every day

Not much colour in my garden today but everything is

'budding up'



The Hyacinths are gorgious with lots more to open up

We are laying a new path

The old path was arranged around a large Weeping Willow tree that we had in our garden at the time. This tree eventually had to go because we had some subsidence at the back of the house.

We had to cut it back a quarter at a time over a period of four years so as to not affect the water table too drastically

There is apparently a stream somewhere underground so without this tree areas of our garden are under water during much of the winter

It is heavy clay so as soon as the ground dries out and it gets hot it begins to crack

The plus side is that the clay is brilliant for the roses

As for the path it is not so easy to step onto the small stones when they are covered in water and

they were never really close together enough for comfort when everything was wet

With possible snow, hail and sleet forecast for the weekend we had better get it finished