Bulb planting

Last weekend I visited our local garden center and stocked up on bulbs so I have been busy all week planting. It is not quite a year since I moved in so have used the excuse of "waiting to see what comes up" before making any drastic changes to the garden. I made a gentle start planting just a few bulbs in the rockery. Miniature daffodils, mini iris, crocus and grape hyacinth.

I bought a sack of mixed daffodils and planned to plant a large swathe across the far end of the lawn. When I tried the shiny new bulb planter I found it was not up to the job and promptly bent so is now useless. Lifting the turf with a spade was an easier task but the soil below is very stony so progress has been rather slower than I anticipated.

I still have half a sack of daffs to plant and then there are the two plum trees which will need two large holes to be dug before I can ask my wife to help me with the actual planting. Then there are more daffs, hyacinths and tulips to go into pots but that is her job.