The bulbs ordered in Summer have arrived and it’s time to dig out the original plan and decide what to do with them.

The tulips will wait. The later you plant them in the year, the less chance there is of something going wrong whether that’s some kind of disease or just the squirrels digging them up to re-plant next door.

The snowdrops will need to be dug into the bed nearest the house. There’s just no point planting them further away where they won’t be seen.

I’ve also ordered three types of anemones:

• anemone blanda blue (blue 15cm)
• anemone blanda “white splendour” (white 15cm) and
• anemone coronaria “the bride” (white 25cm)

The original plan was to  add them to the border up by the roses at the back but surely I’ve ordered too many? I’ll put in the blanda blue up at the back but will add the blanda whites to the front of the new rose bed. They flower early in the year and maybe I should just focus on the beds I can see from the house.

Underneath the hedge the small white muscari didn’t really work  well so maybe I planned to add in some white anemone coronaria. I’d considered planting woodruff but once it’s in, it will never be possible to get it out again, so will put off that idea for at least another year.

Then come the alliums to think about:

• 9x Allium Mount Everest(white, 90cm) 5/4 for each of the two rose beds;
• 10x Allium Aflatuense (purple, 80cm) 5/5 for each of the two rose beds;
• 10x Allium Purple Sensation (purple, 70cm)
• 25x Allium Oreophilum (pink, 25cm) planted at the front of the white rose bed; and
• 25x Allium  Roseum (pale pink, 30cm) planted with the oreophilum

But what on earth did I plan to do with the 25x Triteleia Corrina (blue 30cm)?