Our mimosa arrived this morning.
I wasn't impressed, it was about 8ft tall and would need its support cane for the rest of my lifetime.
The foliage was looking very tatty and had lost some of its leaves at the end of tiny branches.
Given this cost £70, I considered it unacceptable, so I've e-mailed the supply attached these photos and asked them to collect it and give me a refund.
I've decided that the hebes that we had in the troughs haven't survived the freeze. very well, they're all woody and aren't showing any sign of life. They look dead to me.
They may recover, but they won't be going back in the troughs. I'll find somewhere for them, if only "the green bin."
So I went to the local garden centre this afternoon and bought six more. I'll paint the troughs tomorrow, but keep the hebes in the shed until the end of the month. The little troughs next to the window have the hyacinth bulbs which were a present to my wife at Christmas.
The dozen primroses in pots which were a present from the same friend the Christmas before last, which I planted out along the edge of the long border in the January, are all in flower.
My biggest concerns are always my acer palmatums and the sambucas, but they are doing well and showing buds. The palmatum Taylor is still in the warm, in the freezer room in the garage. That has buds on it too.