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Who among you my Flower Children has 'Green Fingers?' If you plant something in a pot or in the garden, dose it grow or dose it refuse to grow?Anyway, when in doubt, plant Geraniums ant true geraniums, not to be comfused with pelargoniums. Few garden flowers are more delightful than pinks. Pinks by name but they come in many colour combinations, my favorite is called 'flashing light.'Lupins always stand tall and proud but are suject to mass attack from black fly.......Godness boys 'n girls, I'm off to Southsea Theatre now to see '42nd. Street a musical.....see you when I get back!

Phlox, did you know you can plant this now in almost any kind of soil. They will come out in early summer and the fragrance is superb. I like to plant them by the front door so their perfume engulfs you as you step out. Try perenial Sweet Pea or it's alo called everlasting Pea. It will scramble up trellis or fence covering them with colour. Rose Queen or white pearl flowers appear in clusters on long stalks. Dear little Lobelia, will grow profusley anywhere you plant it. I use it mainly in hanging baskets along with lots of Busy Lizzies of different coloures.

Graceful Grasses:
The airy grace of ornamental grasses in her baceous and mixed borders. It is there slender stems and arching leaves as much as their delicate flower sprays and plumes that make them ideal foils for brilliant flower colours and dark green foliage plants. Leaf colour is an important conciderationin planning combinations of grasses in borders.

Ostrich Fern.
In spring the arching, golden green fronds of ostrich fern, unfurl into the form of an eligant vase, later surrounding an inner shuttlcock shaped circle of shorter, dark brown fertile fronds which give the plant one of it's common names.