Well, there's a dusting of snow today so I feel sorry for any butterfly that came out of hibernation....

I was reading an article by Alan Titchmarsh recently about better borders. There were two points that he made that really struck home with me. First, that the hard landscaping paints the picture and then the beds and borders are the real work of art. Second, "don't be soft-hearted about plants, if any of them aren't cutting the mustard, they're simply not worth having".