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the snow settled on the floods!All this and it is a mere 16 weeks before we are on site, and 12 weeks before the gardens are built at the Chelsea Flower Show. I always find it a miracle that the plants are ready for the show. It's as if the plants know

Wendy has spent the past few days tidying the plants and loading them onto trolleys for the show gardens that we're supplying. Then Mac, my husband, has been delivering them to the gardens at Chelsea.Cleve West, designer of the BUPA garden, kindly

, Thymus Jekka are looking perfect, but I don’t know how they will hold. We have produced some great plants for Cleve West, who has designed the BUPA garden. He will have some giant angelicas, Angelica archangelica in full flower. I love this herb

on the surface of the compost and cover with perlite, the white granular material that can be purchased at most garden centres. Then put the seed tray or module tray in a propagator or on a heated mat at 16°C. The seeds will germinate in about 20 days, depending

, which is causing me some concern as we do not have a cold store here to hold them back. Our floral displays are exactly how they would be in the garden, except that each plant will have been minutely prepared before leaving the farm.Woad, Isatis

of being outside our plants have experienced wind, rain, hail and sunshine. I'm pleased to report no damage has been done - they're looking good and flowering spikes are appearing.Borage is a great herb for vegetable gardens. The flowers attract bees, which

Palace Flower Show.While I won't be doing another exhibit in the Pavilion for a while, I'm applying to the RHS to create a show garden at Chelsea next year, which will highlight the power of plants. I will be working with the wonderful Cleve West, whose

It has been one of those typical early spring weeks, not enough hours to do everything I want to do. The team from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine came down for a couple of days to take a series of photographs on how to raise plants from seed

rosemary, Eriocephalus africanus. It's a wonderful plant, which starts flowering in November right up until March. These flowers are followed by amazing fluffy seed-pods which look great in the garden but untidy on a show plant. So we prune the flowers

the cowslips, Primula vulgaris, have gone into full flower in early April. There are a few buds left, but they won't hold for a further five weeks, so these herbs will definitely miss the show. Luckily, they're not required for any of the show gardens we