Cold and frosty again today but as the sun was out so were Ben and I. I cleared away the last of the monkshood seedheads as they have gone soggy and are obscuring the view of the back of the garden and my ‘winter border’. I have put three pale yellow primroses in today (bought at the supermarket) and planted them in front of the Christmas boxes and red dogwood.

The garlic is beginning to sprout in the troughs around the remaining pair of red cabbages. This together with the first signs of the rhubarb encourage hope.