It should be possible to just sit back and enjoy a garden but I’m not quite able to do that. It’s Spring and the garden has been lovely, but even so there are gaps to be filled.

In general, white flowers have proved successful in this garden against a green background.

The crocus have been beautiful, white and purple, but it would be nice to see more of them, especially white up on the roof in the gravel garden.

The miniature iris have been and gone, but there are fewer this year than last so I’d like to see clumps of them also, especially in the gravel. Iris reticulate Blue Note are on the shopping list

The white windflowers have appeared and are wonderful, but there could be more in the borders at the front of the house and along under the hedge to the right of the garden.

& some tulips are just about starting to appear, red and tiny in the gravel – let’s have some ore of them too. Tulip Montana might be worth buying and planting in clump

The violas and cyclamen bought as bedding last Autumn are still flowering and lovely so maybe I should try them again.

But mainly I’m waiting until the end of April to order replacements for some of the plants that died in the dry heat of last year’s Summer, watching the gravel garden carefully to see what rises after the stripping and re-planting