memory aid

Unlike Monty Don, I don't keep a garden diary, so I can never check dates and remind myself when I should be planting, pruning, sowing, and scattering. I have vague timings in my head, but in fact I have come to rely on a more basic feeling for when something should be done (probably to do with light levels and temperatures), and find this works pretty well. The internal indoor hyacinth alarm has just gone off, so yesterday out came all the hyacinth vases for forcing, and out came the camera for the obligatory annual hyacinth bulb photo.

Partly because I love the look of the bulbs. But mostly because a visual aide-mémoire on the blog is a great back-up to my hazy, date-free timing.

[The tulips aren't in the ground yet. It just hasn't felt cold enough. Nor are the narcissi, which technically should be planted in September, but they are so good-natured and obliging, that they wait and go in with the tulips.]