Potting time.

I spent a couple of days this week potting up plants for Shay's pre-school's garden stall at the fete on Saturday. Once I started walking around the garden, with fork and trowel in hand, it was difficult to know when to stop digging up plants. Only plants with roots were potted but there were so many that I could have kept potting for a month. Most pots contain approximately 6 or more plants.

Dozens of self-sown Californian Poppies, larkspurs, alyssum, centranthus, African daisies, gazanias, aquilegia, plus divisions of lamium, sedum, chrysanthemum, pink evening primrose, Easter daisies, violets and a couple of other groundcovers.

I hope that some of these plants may encourage a love of gardening in someone who is establishing a garden for the first time. There are so many easy-to-grow and rewarding plants that I think it's sad that so many people feel that a garden is just too much trouble, or they don't have time to experience the joy of growing plants in however small a space they may have available.