Ashley said the garden was looking nice yesterday. Am very encouraged.

Plus side: where the very ugly plants were I have planted an Acer tree with red, feathery leaves.

I planted two scabious plants and 2 drumstick primulas, both with lilac coloured flowers.

The climbing rose is beginning to reach the sunshine, which will encourage ito to grow more.

I have planted 2 tomato plants in the raised bed, as they were pretty good last year, and 4 courgette plants, which I hope will breed better this year. Depends on ratio of male female flowers.

I popped some scented sweet pea seeds straight into the ground. These are coming up.

I’ve re-potted some of the patio plants.

The ceanothus and the choisia are both blooming, the camelia is looking lovely, (rather hidden behind a laurel unfortunately) and the Magnolia tree has three more flowers on. This is its second year. It seems a bit confused.

Bad side: the pieris which I dumped in a pot last autumn did fine all winter, and now seems to be dying – nothing I can do except water it, but … seems doomed.

Got a lot of debris to take to a dump.

The patio needs sweeping.