#SixonSaturday My Gardening Week @cavershamjj

I have book blogger Rosie Amber to thank for introducing me to this weekly meme hosted by The Propagator which I’m taking part in for the first time. If you’re interested in taking part as well you can find more details here.

Without further ado, here are six things that have given me pleasure, caused me frustration or had me looking forward to brighter days in the garden this week.

1) Potatoes (the variety is Rocket) chitting in preparation for planting into containers in a month or so’s time.

2) Although it may not look like much at the moment, this path leading from our French windows was previously lined with box hedging that succumbed to box blight. It’s been a hell of a job to dig them out. Only a couple of daffodil bulbs have survived.

I’m thinking about planting a lavender hedge or a row of some kind of low growing evergreen shrub. Suggestions welcomed.

3) Seeds of some of my favourite vegetables to grow waiting for the right moment to be started off in pots on a sunny window sill.

4)  A heuchera (below left) that has made it through the winter without losing any of its lovely bronze foliage.

5) Nice fat buds forming on a rhododendron (above right). I don’t know the variety as it was in the garden when we bought the house but it has lovely crimson flowers.

6) Being a book blogger, I can’t finish without featuring some books can I? Here’s a couple of second-hand gardening books bought as much for their covers as their content.

Enjoy spending time in your garden, allotment or outside space this week.