Tonight we have yet another storm hitting us - Storm Dudley is already causing more damage to the Magic Garden & there are lots of thumps & bangs from out there. It is the Full Moon tonight which in February is known as the Storm Moon. We were being hit by Storm Dennis 2 years ago so it doesn’t seem an inappropriate name. Its also known as the Snow Moon & indeed a year ago we had snow!

I sowed some rudbeckia & echinacea yesterday. I don’t really take that much note of ‘planting by the moon’ but by this it was the time to sow seeds for things that the important things are above ground - leaf & flowers. Tomorrow by the same token, I shall be putting my seed potatoes to chit.

Meantime Ben is enjoying my bad habit of buying plants - today’s arrivals were a potted hydrangea anomala subspecies petiolaris and a bare-root American Gum ‘tree’. Think he also will appreciate the garden label.