oh what a beautiful morning

..well it wasn't actually, it was wet and miserable.........but by the time i got up to go to church it was gorgeous...............went to have lunch with F & K and the kids, but soon the sight of them trimming their hedge was too much, i could feel the lawn calling me.............."mooowwwwwww mmeeeeeee..........." so i went home and did just that. refilled the pond, put the fuchsias outside, moved those very unhappy New Guinea impatiens..........planted the Persicarias by the pond,  and the new Nepeta in "Catmint Corner".......... and the delphiniums. well, one can always hope. no doubt the snails will appreciate a change to their diet. gave the begonias some comfrey feed. gave the pond iris a concrete overcoat............well, not quite, but had the bright idea of weighting it to make it stay put and stop it wandering round the pond..........hope the lump of cement i've wired it to doesn't poison it. dead-headed the roses, the organic rose is having another flush of flowers........planted the wild strawberry............picked the tomatoes.........oh, the pride. i'm going to eat them with my tuna tonight.
.......i suppose some people  might think it was eccentric to give your best friend a bunch of mint, caraway, marjoram and Vietnamese coriander for her birthday, but Fiona seemed pleased, they always like things you can eat. their new garden is lovely too now that everything's up.
............planted some rocket......bought a few cheapo things for pots since the pansies have bit the dust..............moved the impatiens outside to the front step as they're flowering like mad but getting all aphidy indoors....even the camera had aphids............the front looks OK, still a bit dry and bare under the tree but the alpines in the gravel distract from that bit, and there's time enough to plant it up some more................
............first love-in-a-mist is out! - and such a beautiful blue. more on the way, and the escholzia sprouting by the roses...........that bit still looks rather sad and bare, but we'll see what comes up.........the bit where the lavenders are is still something of a mess, those stocks have done nothing except grow leaves, no sign of them flowering...maybe it's too shady. also lots of grass and weeds which is very difficult to separate from the plants. plus big heap of weed scooped from the pond......fertiliser...........