Our tulips have been amazing and I love how the Winter pansies are still flowering and that the orange is picked up in both and the purple is echoed in the Clematis and the pansies. I really am delighted with this planting. It has given us pleasure for many months starting with the Tete a Tete and the Anemone Blanda.

We are half way through May and decided to plant out the Purple Tepee Dwarf beans at the allotment as their roots were well through their toilet roll root trainers. They look happy.

The courgettes and the baby squash  are also ready to plant out but it does feel too cold still for them. Soon, I hope.