It’s been a beautiful day, clear with sunshine, cold & dry. I spent most of the day outside but not that much in the Magic Garden. I did though have a look round to see what’s stirring and also thinking about tidying up. I love seed heads and dead flowers but I am thinking about cutting back now new growth is showing through.

The rudbeckia are probably the most dignified of the ddad flowers in the garden and their centres still suggest promise but the real promise is present at their base with new growth showing through. These are new in the Magic Garden last summer & I am really pleased with the response of pollinators to their splash of colour. I’ve put several through the Magic Garden and the surrounding borders. These are under the black elderflower.