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It may depend on how cold it got. Some may have gone dormant and will come back when the weather picks up. It's worth just leaving them until April but start off some new ones. Don't cut them to check as it may shock them.

Good morning all, thick cloud and light winds temp 7c to 11c Precipitation 36% Sunrise 6.39 Sunset 17.59 Maybe some rain showers.

@Logan we did the same with some very old lavenders 4 years ago. Our son gave us a new one and it has really done the goods. Hadn't realised how tired the original ones where.

Thank you everyone who sent me birthday greetings. We had a lovely walk among the trees in Coole Park, where the turlough (disappearing lake) was well in evidence, thanks to the amount of rain we've been having. We couldn't take the path round the lake, because it was under water, but that...

Thank you @LunarSea, that's really interesting.

Being in Berlin for a weekend visit, where everything is grey and grass looks dead after 10 weeks of hard frost and snow, I showed my sister pictures from my garden where everything seems to thrive now. Before I left for Berlin, I saw that the lilac tree gets first leaves. On the other hand,...

Been to B&Q today went for some bitumen paint but come away with some cyclamen coum, I've been after some white ones for years just never wanted to pay the rather expensive price they are for a single plant. Looks to be a 2 or 3 plants per cell hopefully, I'll divide them up and plant them half...

I've just brought the last 1/4 sack of last years Sarpo Mira crop home. They have kept well in the Allotment shed. I do have some Anya as well but they have long shoots and are going soft so I don't think they are usable.

Not a garden as such but this morning we visited the South West Orchid Society Show. As usual some superb plants and many are SO big the growers must have HUGE areas to grow them in. Some lovely scents and the different colours and structures of the flowers were amazing. A really friendly group...

A nice example of a jelly ear fungus from this morning's walk

We have to constantly rearrange the tunnel entrance to our Hhog feeding station due to 2 cats which come in overnight. They are a real nuisance and I wish their owners would ensure their cats would remain in their own gardens.

Like anything else it depends on the usage but I'd say we have used more over the last few months than previously. Our tank holds 1000 litres and we bought 600 litres to top it up in January. Nearest estimate is probably 400 litres used since then which is higher than normal. Boiler does both...