Easter greetings….

 …to those who observe such things.  

The tomato seedlings have come on well, so we picked up some compost from the stores yesterday and did some potting up.  Six Sweet Olive plants, a variety that has served us very well in the past, and a dozen San Marzano.  The latter are a bit of a gamble, since they ought to be grown indoors in these latitudes, but since our terrace is quite a sun trap, we thought we’d risk it.  There are a few more San Marzano plants to pot up, so I’ll have a look for pots once I’m properly awake.

We were afraid that we might have lost the magnolia Susan in last year’s drought, but here she is, flowering fit to bust.  Annie’s camellia over the fence is doing pretty well, though the rain has browned off a lot of the flowers.  The magnolia stellata and white camellia at the front has been been pretty good, but heavy rain and strong wind have taken their toll.  Next in line is the viburnum plicatum, and it is budding nicely.  Elsewhere in the white inventory, the spiraea are beginning to flower, and I see flower buds on the potentilla raised from a cutting nicked from outside the Tonbridge sorting office.

The Fritillaria meleagris are doing better than ever this year, I think.  

I gave the grass another cut yesterday, but I think the mower blade has had it.  It’s only a couple of years old, so given how expensive it was, I’m kinda disappointed.  I’ll perhaps have a go at it with a file.  Or more likely, I’ll look up the serial number and get one on line.