Don't you love spring?

Sometimes it's healthy, I think, just to look, rather than to think too hard.

So here are the results of me looking around my garden this week, not thinking, just enjoying.

And then you chance upon something you've never noticed before...

Know what it is? It's the flowers of a male Yew tree, ready to drop their pollen into the breeze, without which we wouldn't have the red 'drupes' (Yew berries) in autumn to feed the Blackbirds.

And now that you're all relaxed and ready to think again, I've got a little task for anyone visiting a garden centre in the next ten days, please, for a project we're doing with Friends of the Earth, the National Trust and Plantlife.

When you're there, go to the compost section, count how many types of compost there are, how many of those are peat-based, how many are peat-free, and how many are just not clear. Then fill in this VERY quick survey and it will give us a great sense of how easy it is for gardeners to buy peat-free compost in 2017. Thank you!