Home Alone

It has been heads down and grafting all the way this last week getting ready for Easter. I have managed to get out in the garden on a few days to carry on weeding but at a weak moment a couple of months ago I allowed Mum and Dad to book two weeks away on holiday this month so most of my time has been spent in the poly tunnel potting up and looking after the nursery and even on a good day customers.
Easter is early this year but even so looking at the weather forcast just the same old cold weather that we always get. We are not as far on as we usually are for this holiday, but we have a quite a few nice plants now in the nursery all growing on well, looking for a new home.
I have cut the grass again and some of the mole damage is now starting to blend in, thank goodness, although I am sure that is another hill popping up over there!!!

Post Holiday Digs

This week it is back to the grind after our holiday we are putting in a new fence across the car park, you might think it is to hide all the piles of sand, gravel and hardcore, but it is actually to give us a little more room in the stock area. As I buy more plants on my travels to other gardens and nurseries I then split them all up to make several plants for the garden and then when they have made a large enough display, I put some in the Goltho nursery.
The fence had been really hard work as we have had to punch through the concrete then dig an 18 in hole through the hardcore, but we have got all the posts in now just got to put the panels up, hurray!!
Last Saturday and Sunday was Discover Lincolnshire weekend run by Lincolnshire Tourism and we were very busy for the time of year and we had loads of new customers who 'Discovered' us for the first time.

Goltho Gardens at Niagara Falls

This looks like the Goltho Gardens staff outing. It is actually myself and my two daughters Kirsty and Emma on our holiday to Canada, Sean took the photograph I thought I would put this in as there is so little happening still in the garden at the moment.
We have got our first daffodils out they are supposed to be a very early variety and are usually out at the end of December begining of January. The snowdrops are looking lovely now and some of the hellebores are finally out.
I have spent this last week in the tunnel trying to pot some plants up ready for selling over Mothers Day and then Easter, some days the pots never thawed out which made things very difficult. I have it on good authoritythough that Spring is starting Wednesday next week. As long as it does not snow!!