After crawling through January which seemed to last a few hundred days, suddenly we arrive at Easter!

Where did February and March and the start of April go?… I think they should be renamed the ‘Blinkary’ months as to me they just disappear within a blink.

Maybe as my gardening business for my customers builds up again after their November “no need to call now until March time thank you” is chanted to me time just speeds by as I bring back their Winter sleeping garden areas back into a lovely maintained condition bursting with life and vigour (their gardens, not me!)

‘No work Winter’ in gardens is a fallacy!

I never tout for work, just explain that there are still gardening tasks to do over Winter yet most just stick to their “see you in March” chant.

The Autumn leaves on lawns still hang around which are carefully removed as there’s always sleeping and slow moving insects beneath them so never wanting to destroy them, that takes some time.

Yet borders and flower beds always seem to house a wealth of weeds growing within them, slowly growing even over the cooler Winter months ready to seize their opportunity to burst into flower and set seed ahead of the gardener arriving!

Cutting back perennial plants which have ended their flowering displays for the year and a surface cultivation of borders and a lawn edging all helps to keep them looking at their best through the dreary Winter months.

Maybe I need to learn to have my own ‘horti-chant’ back to sell my gardening wares to them…..I’ve got til late Summer to come up with one!

now for a cup-of-T no