Buttercups and tulips

Pulled myself together and did a bit of gardening.

I cleared an area that was overgrown with, I think, buttercups, or yellow buttercuppy-type flowers, which are very pretty in their own right but not when they think they're in charge. 

On a visit to the garden centre earlier this week I bought some ground cover plants, and I've put three along the front, and one, rather daringly, in an old bit of tree trunk. That one is saxifrage, which grows on cliffsides and in crannies in the wild so I'm hoping it will revel in its new position. Actually if it just survives I'll be pleased.

I've also drawn a little map in my notebook that tells me what I planted where.

So when they succeed/fail to grow I'll know whether or not to buy those plants again. 

Also in very exciting news, the tulips I planted in the autumn are in bud!

And apropos of nothing:

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