Looking out the windows it was sunny occasionally today but when I escaped home it promptly rained - which at least meant I didn’t feel the need to start lugging the watering can around. There were still bees around enjoying the Lambs Ears.

Ben is a bit less than impressed at the moment as he spent yesterday at the vet hospital - he is fine but at 17 is slowing down. The magic continues with his catnip plants around the garden.

The jasmine that got pulled out by Storm Arwen with the old fence is sprouting madly out of its contorted stump producing height that is only rivalled by the verbena just coming into flower.