Diary of a weekend gardener

An early morning of poppies and frogs

I was awake at 5.30am and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up, threw on a fleece and went out in the chill morning air. About a dozen frogs were piled up on a messy heap of frogspawn in the pond so clearly the heron missed a good few. They quickly slipped into the water at the first sound I made - they've learnt to be wary.

Such was my morning energy rush that I spent a very pleasant hour before breakfast pricking out the remaining meconopsis seedlings, this time settling them in up to the leaf bases. Fingers crossed for 30 healthy babies later this year.

posted by Sue Beesley @ 10:29 pm