Today is my last day at home and again it has been sunny and bright although there had been a hard frost overnight and temperatures remained lower than yesterday. I have rather worn my mother out so we had a mainly quiet day so I took the opportunity to decide with her where to plant the alpines that she bought at the Garden Cottage Nursery on Saturday. She has a small rockery which is really just the natural stones built up into a bank away form the patio as the garden slopes upwards and away. It was a little challenging creating planting holes for these new plants and the lavender I brought from Newcastle for Mum. I will be particularly interested to see how the dwarf curry plant does as I quite like the idea of using these as edging plants.

Once I had planted these out for Mum and watered her seedlings and the cuttings in the greenhouse for her, I took the opportunity to take some cuttings from one of the buddleja globosa - the yellow ball tree. Mum had taken these as cuttings years ago and says they strike easily - we shall see!