Its been a beautiful day here with a real feeling of spring. Its not been warm but the sun has been out most of the day. The Magic Garden is really beginning to wake up from its winter sleep. Ben and I enjoyed some time sitting in the sun before I did some ‘instant’ gardening after a bit more impulse buying.

I’m going to gradually fill up the space in the back under where the jasmine used to be with perennials but went for a bit of instant colour with some new snakehead fritillaries and anemone blanda ‘blue shades’. There are 2 more catnip plants in there now too but Ben hasn’t noticed yet.

Anemone blanda means charming windflower which seems a good description of these cheerful winter flowering plants. They used to be used medicinally to treat gout which seems a bit surprising as they are quite toxic.