I love sweetpeas with their delicate scent & pretty flowers - a love that my sister shared and so I always try to grow some in her memory. I tend not to be terribly successful with the annual ones but have go a couple of perennial ones in the back garden that always romp away. This year though I’m making a determined effort to have some annual ones and yesterday I planted out some of this year’s sowings. Monty Don put his out on Friday’s Gardeners’ World so I’ll blame him if this lot fails! I do have my fallback collection which I won’t put out for a couple of weeks yet.

I was pleased to find that they had survived their first night and first gusts of wind, rather better than the white daffodils have done. There are three sorts I have planted out half of my Spencers mixed, a new one to me ‘Breath of fresh Air’ and a single colour ‘Blue Velvet’.