Its been a lovely sunny if windy Saturday and pleasantly warm. I haven’t watered anything other than the tomatoes and cucumbers today but am expecting to do a full watering again tomorrow. I am enjoying the amount of flowers that are around and enjoying finding the blooms hidden away like the pretty star-like flowers of the isotoma. I’m also taking pleasure from the crocosmia that I have spread around the garden - I think it is Crocosmia x crocosmilflora Emily McKenzie

Ben is fully recovered now from his operation although he is still tending not to stray that far from me during the day and I suspect lurks where he is in easy reach of the house.

Next to the isotoma, there is a hotspur diascia. Its redness sticks out a bit but as I am not expecting it to survive more than one season it can stay where it is under the rowan tree.