Give me a break.

Having planted some late purchased tulip bulbs in big pots (I like to plant my bulbs deep rather than just under the surface as some gardeners do, using them as annuals.) I find tulip bulbs are too pricey to throw out after a year, besides, they are happy to come up more than once. Anyway, I digress! I buried them in the pots for springtime colour but that leaves a bland soil top and 'naked' pots. So off I went to the local garden centre to get some cyclamen and winter flowering pansies only to find trees, Christmas trees and hundreds of them. MY choices were fruit bushes, hellebore or Christmas trees. It's November! The weather has been so mild that dahlias are still in bloom and now we are weeks away from spending fifty pounds on a cut tree.
So with no choice at the garden centre my pots are still bare but it meant I got home earlier which allowed the chickens to have a good time attacking the ripe raspberries. I think they were the winners today.