With some beautiful weather (I have the sunburn to prove it) and no big plans beyond watching poor Andy lose again to Novak, the weekend was time to get stuff done in the garden. I'd always intended to have the front garden's border extend fully along the wall, not least because the patch of lawn remaining there was hard to mow and particularly weed infested. I also had a bunch of cosmos and marigold plants which I'd grown from seed which needed somewhere to go. Here's the end result:
Hopefully they'll survive the slugs, despite the dire warnings from our neighbour. The blue/purple flowers growing in the wall are a happy accident, no idea what they are but I'll leave them there.
Further down the same border in the part I made last year, the foxgloves and nigella are looking particularly good at the moment:
And in other news, I picked my first home-grown strawberry, a honeoye. Sadly the Cambridge Favourite in the bottom of the planter seem to have died - not sure if that's from over-watering, lack of sunlight, or they just got too damaged from their traumatic pre-planting time - I'd put them in the plastic 'greenhouse' which got blown over by the big storm this spring. Maybe I'll get some runners from the others and re-plant.
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