If only blogs could smell!

Hyacinths, who knew they smell so powerfully, such a wonderful, heady scent.

I am currently making Kokedama to sell through the coming months, you can see some of them at kokedamalondon.com but I have also been scouring charity shops and boot fairs for bowls in which to plant bulbs. One that I found was so Japanese in nature that I even tried my hand at my first bonsai - it's a crab apple! At the moment I am waiting for the last apples to drop - all the leaves left weeks ago - then I will be cutting down the long branches to form a smaller tree. I am loving all this experimentation. In  the kokedama I planted some dwarf crocus bulbs a couple of months ago and they are just peeping through now.

Can't wait to see if the seeded ones emerge in the spring.

Last night I spruced up my CV and wrote a covering letter which I plan to distribute to my favourite garden centres - got to cover all bases. I will be winning the lottery later on so it is probably a fruitless exercise.