On 2014-04-06 12:16:30 +0000, Martin said:

On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:14:40 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2014-04-05 14:38:52 +0000, unicron85 said:

kay;1000584 Wrote:
I've planted a swamp cypress in mine ;-)

Try and resist the urge to rip everything out. Especially, don't go
digging up any beds if you can avoid it - a lot of plants will be
dormant at this time of year, so if you can, try not to disturb too much
before the summer, when you may find you have a lot of plants coming up
that you really like.

Meanwhile, watch the garden, see which bits get the sun, which are
always in the shade. Come the summer, you may be glad of the wetness as
it may mean you don't need to spend time watering.

If possible, don't try and do the whole garden at once - choose one bit
to deal with, get that sorted, and when it's functioning nicely, move on
to another bit. Meanwhile, the bits you're not dealing with, just keep
grass mown and edges trimmed and it'll look tidy (and a lot less
offensive that a bit you've dug and haven't had time to plant and which
is beginningto grow a crop of weeds).

Remember too, that you can't make a garden, they need to grow, and it's
in two or three years time that it'll really begin to come into its own.

well as i said we already have a plan for what we would like to do the
garden, ive started in one corner anyway and i plan on ripping out the
horrible eyesore that is there. there is also obviously nothing in this
garden that i would like to keep it wasn't very well looked after before
we moved here. would a swamp cypress grow in the uk??

There's nothing obvious about it, as yet. Several things won't even
have started to poke their heads through the soil in cold areas.
Whereabouts do you live? South Cornwall, Yorkshire, Highlands of
Scotland?

Judging from BBC TV Local news the daffodils have already finished in parts of
frigid Yorkshire :-)

It's a funny year. Some people are saying theirs are over (of course,
so much depends on variety) others are saying their tulips are out and
ours are still just thinking about it - again, variety but also
location and conditions.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk