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One step forward and ten back seems to sum up the progress of spring this year. We’ve had snow, hail, frost, rain and the most wonderful sunshine in quick succession over the past few weeks! This changeable weather is taxing when trying to work out when to sow seed and when to start the veggie planting, however, the green house is now coming into its own and I have tomatoes, courgettes, broad beans and lots of flower seed growing away under the protection of the glass! The potatoes are in the ground and the shrubs we planted at the beginning of the year are all coming into leaf. The lovely old Hawthorn hedge which surrounds my garden is beginning to leaf out but we do seem to be a couple of weeks behind the rest of Hampshire in terms of progress. Living on a windy hill does give you amazing views but it does have an impact on the gardening!

We’re planting many of our new gardens at the moment and so making lots of trips to nurseries. Every visit to the amazing trade nurseries we use on a regular basis gives inspiration for the next garden on the drawing board with new ideas for fresh combinations. Never able to resist temptation, it also means that we come back from each nursery trip with new plants for the garden at home!

Newly finished gardens will be photographed and added to the web site in the next couple of weeks - so watch this space for a new front garden, a seaside garden and an unusual urban garden with inspiration taken from Cotswold stone walls!