Tomato seedlings, sown in coir pellets in the heated propagator on Sunday were germinating by Friday

My pots of species tulips have a gravel mulch, that way I know which to leave undisturbed from year to year.

When I moved here, there were no snowdrops in the garden,  now they are popping up everywhere.  I divide large clumps just after flowering to spread them even further.

Peas, soaked overnight and sown in a length of gutter

Two brackets attached to the greenhouse shelf are used to hold the gutter sown with peas

Pots of Mara de Bois strawberries, overwintered in the coldframe, have been tidied and top dressed with fish blood and bone in readiness for an early greenhouse crop

Autumn-sown cornflowers are growing in modules ready to go out in the garden in  a few weeks time

The sword-like Astelia leaves look wonderful in the low afternoon sun

Mimosa Flowers are beginning to open.

Lemon Blossom in the conservatory.

Tiny cyclamen seedlings are springing up in the woodland area.

There was frost on the inside of the greenhouse windows this morning but everything seems to have survived - so far.

The elegant mulberry tree against a glorious blue sky

The view from my desk has been very distracting

The combination of snow and sunshine was extraordinarily beautiful.

Seagull in the snow It takes more than a blizzard to dislodge a seagull from its chimney pot!

While all is white outdoors, indoors the first amaryllis have opened a rich deep red.

The earliest hellebore flowers emerge beneath a dusting of snow…