Nigel Slater

Thank you.

Yes, it feels strange not being there. I have too many deadlines at the moment. So maybe later in the year.

Yes, lots, but they haven’t enjoyed the rain.

Yes, that’s what these are. So delicate and such gentle colouring.

Ha. Hello Primrose!

I love these! I have them in the garden but they haven’t spread as widely as I had hoped.

A few dusky pink ones arrived in my last order of yellow ones. They seemed to have settled back to yellow now.

Same problem here with pigeons. They nip the buds off!

Thank you Alan, that is so good to hear.

A cheering sight

I grew up surrounded by country lanes full of primroses. I fear I took them for granted in those days. Such a treat having some in the garden.

I love mimosa!

Quite a good year for crocuses in my garden, but they didn’t like the torrential rain. Lots of flowers but they didn’t last long.

That sounds blissful.

Thank you! That is very lovely to hear.

Mine are under an apple tree too. They seem happy there. Quite sheltered and lots of leaf mould.

A few clumps, but they struggled this year with the rain. Barely a day without it.

Yes, clay originally but now lightened by several years of mulching and leaf mould, so a little better than when I moved in.

So pretty!

I’m really hoping they will spread too.

A bunch of pale yellow primroses and their green leaves against a background of dried leaves, twigs and rotted bark at the bottom of my London garden.

I’m usually away at this time of year, invariably missing the moment when the primroses start blooming at the bottom of the garden. It is difficult to think of a plant that carries the hope and freshness of spring the way a primrose does. Worth staying home for.

Thank you!

🙏 the bacon is so good with the oats. 😊

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It has been such a good week for greens. I was spoilt for choice. Also came back with two bunches of purple sprouting and a ridiculously big cabbage!

Thank you. Just the sort of gold my garden needs. (Crocuses on their way.)

Two earthenware bowls, filled with a casserole of onions, herbs, pork sausages, haricot bens and broccoli. They sit on an old pine table.

For a freezing January day such as this, my sausage and beans supper. In my Kitchen Diary on the Observer App.

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