Happy St. David's Day. My Mother is Welsh and  we have always had daffodils, the Welsh national flower, in our home on St Davids Day.  When I was a child, my Dad would have to go to the florist and buy daffodils raised in warmer climes, probably in the Scilly Isles or Cornwall.  The winters are now so much warmer that you can rely on daffodils from the garden - they have been in flower for three weeks or more.

Traditional weather lore says that if March 'comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb'.  Well, the wind blew hard in the night and is still blowing strong and cold this morning. It helps to remind us gardeners that its still early in the year and that our packets of seed are better off in the potting shed than in the ground!  We will get to do some planting at the weekend though because we have bought two new apples trees to boost our orchard production.  Some of the apple trees at Church House are getting old so we are preparing for the future. We will plant a Bramley, the classic British cooking apple and a Sunset which is an eating apple said to taste like Cox's Orange Pippin but not so difficult to grow. So when March 'goes out like a lamb' our trees will be getting settled into their new homes.

I promise to update you on the accuracy of the weather forecasting later in the month.

Bye for now
Susy