I spent the afternoon waiting in for the men who came to fix the security alarm - they were rather late and rather foiled by the system’s fault. Meantime I had spent the afternoon potting on the golden globe buddlea cuttings and some of the young plants gracing my window sills. Ben went and sat by the potted apple trees - I’d had to move them together because the wind was blowing them over again.

I opened the backdoor to find that the tiered troughs had blown over. I rescued three nasturtiums but have just had to accept the loss of the planned crops.

Its lovely to see the late spring / early summer flowers starting to appear with the start of the geranium next to the rhubarb.