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I've started to realise that this time of year is all work and little play in the garden. I've been kept busy for the past few weeks with pruning, clearing and getting the garden ready for the summer - which still seems a long way off  - but the hard work I put it now will (hopefully) pay off later.

I still feel like I'm doing a lot of guesswork though, because I don't know what many of the plants and bushes are and I'm learning as I go along. Twitter is great for that btw - just tweet a photo of your unknown plant and someone will tell you what it is.

In the meantime I'm following Dan Pearson's gardening recommendations for each month - I like his list of jobs for each month; as well as reading my Gardening Through the Year book which is broken into month by month chapters with featured plants and a What To Do section. I like clear instructions, and as I'm very much a beginner I like pictures too!

Anyway, this week I've been planting some dahlias, a peony and an agapanthus. I've never planted dahlias before and even though they're slightly old-fashioned I like the fact they flower so profusely during the summer months, plus (and allow me a little nostalgia for a second) they were probably my Dad's favourite plants. I'm making that assumption because we always had a lot of dahlias in the family garden when we were growing up. So dahlias it is then.

I bought two, and because they need full sun, decided to plant them in this bed under the living room window. This bed gets the most sun of the whole garden because it's south facing and gets only dappled shade. I also planted a few allium bulbs in this border last autumn, but so far only 3 have made an appearance. Fingers crossed for the others.

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