What amazing weather we are having at the moment, but I am having to water my garden in the evening, which is the downside of this gorgeous sunshine.

I decided to take it easy this Easter weekend, with some light gardening duties and a bit of sitting about and enjoying the sun to recharge my batteries but the garden, on the other hand, is far from taking it easy, with everything growing at an incredible rate of knots.

My alliums are bursting out all over the garden and I am sure they don't usually appear until May, although I suppose we are on the cusp of May aren't we. I think this late Easter has completely thrown me.

I seem to have a bit of a purple theme going on, in the garden, as I have these most incredible purple frilly tulips in flower. I am definitely going to plant more tulips in the autumn for a beautiful spring display next year.

My peony is covered in big fat buds, just waiting to erupt. It's so exciting anticipating their arrival, which I think will be any day now.

My greenhouse is full of little seedlings.

Squash, sweetcorn, peppers, chillies, tomatoes, coriander, lettuce and my climbing courgettes, which I think are going to turn into monsters.

My vegetable bed is full of cerinthe, which self seeded from last year. It is blooming it's little socks off and I keep cutting it and bringing it in the house and filling Kilner jars, which looks so pretty. It will be staying there until I am ready to plant out my tomatoes in a few weeks but until then, it is keeping the weeds down and feeding the bees.

Last year I wrote about peasticks and asked what they were.

Well this year I thought my tomatoes, beans and my peas needed something sturdier and more attractive to climb up and cling to than bamboo canes, so I have sourced some wonderful beanpoles and peasticks from Dorset Hurdles.

Dave Partridge of Dorset Hurdles is a member of the Dorset Coppice Group and all the wood is sourced from a locally managed woodland.

What I love about these beanpoles and peasticks, is not only are they going to look super in my vegetable bed but they have travelled a short distance, unlike bamboo and they are an environmentally friendly by-product of the Dorset countryside.

I have added a link to Dave's website, which shows all this wares with very reasonable prices, if you are interested.

With my batteries recharged, I have next week off from work, so fingers crossed the weather will hold, to let me get out into the garden but with rain expected at the end of the week, i hope it won't last too long.

Rain or shine a whole week spent in the garden is just going to be heavenly.

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