Looking at the garden I can clearly see the future - this is what it would normally look like in two or three weeks. I cannot remember a year when our plants and gardens advanced in an orderly manner, to a strict timetable, as each year one flower or another jumps the queue, or gets caught napping.
Read MoreThe greenhouse at the bottom of the garden has finally come to the end of its days. The rickety old thing we inherited with the house served us well even as it slowly disintegrated and when the high winds in February left it wobbly the health and safety committee stepped in.
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