I received a huge clump of lovely pink Japanese Anemones from a lady on Freecycle. After soaking them in a big bucket for a few hours, I enriched the soil with some multi purpose compost, removed the weeds, and split the plant into two clumps with a spade. In a few days, I will chop all the growth down to ground level, and wait for them to start growing again in May. They are at the front of the house, which is north-facing. They appreciate not growing in full sun, so I am hoping they will be pretty happy there.

Sent a banana seed through the post. cost 61p!!!! how the feck do they justify the price hikes when I still don't get my mail until midday!!!!!!???? One bloody seed!!! Disgusted.....

Broke my new phone. Gutted.

Meanwhile, in the garden...........

Decided that the planned bed for Spring bulbs under the tree will have to wait. Really need to improve drainage at the top of the garden where we're growing veg first.

I gave the Pansy Palace (yes, I am that sad to name a bed) a major overhaul today. It had become overgrown with Nasturtiums, and the pansies in there had become really leggy. So I pulled everything out. Went to B&Q to have a look round. Came away with 30 pansies for £3, 12 lovely yellow Violas for £3, and a wonderful Christmas Box for almost £7. Enriched the soil with half a bag of the compost that was delivered the other day, and planted everything. I'm delighted with the way it looks. Interplanted the bed with 30 Salome Daffodils.

I have resigned myself to the fact that we won't be having the Barbeque Summer that the Met Office promised us. It is raining now. Actually, it's been raining more or less constantly for a few days, beginning with a torrential rain storm, complete with thunder and lightning. So the garden is flooded. Again.

I ordered six 70 litre bags of multi purpose compost from creativegardenideas.co.uk last week. Free delivery too! They should be arriving today. Most of it will be used to create a spring bulb bed around the tree at the bottom of the garden. I'm hoping that there will be at least one bag left over to enrich the onion bed. Speaking of onions, I'm finding lots of conflicting advice as to when would be the best time to plant the sets I bought. Some sites say September, others October and November. I even saw one recommend the shortest day as the best time to plant them. I don't want them to run to seed prematurely by planting them out too early, but I don't want to wait too long to plant them, as already the temperature is dropping outside.