Pilewort

Celendine, aka Pilewort, the roots of which were once used in the treatment of haemarrhoids.

Peppery pong

        Lovely peppery sweet smell from the blooming wallflowers.

Daffs Up

          The first daffs are up and it's starting to feel like spring.

Souped up

Unearthed a few potatoes and a beetroot from last season to accompany some leeks and celery in a soup.

Parklife

                             The crocuses are out in the park.

Mulched

              Rhubarb's now in leaf, happy with a mulch of manure.

Ready, steady, sow

Now sowing indoors; peas, broad beans, tomatoes, chillis, phlox, calendula, sweet peas, rudbeckia.

Persea americana

        Three-year old avocado plant surviving the winter indoors.

Not burning down the house

More appropriate on the plains of South America than in a small urban garden, but now almost impossible to remove as the sharp blades can cut you to shreds and any attempt to set fire to it, as is traditional, would probably burn the house down. Still, at this time of year it's almost worth having.

Chopped

                      Annual pollarding of the chestnut tree.