Welcome to my perfumed garden

I do. I'll love it even better in a couple of weeks when the hawthorn and cow parsley is out - like it less haing to hack away the rampant vegetation but hey ho, tis the price you play for living in the rainforest - as we do, climatically; officially.

Wee Burgi oak - is he tiny for a 2 year old then? I thought he was doing OK. I may have bonsai'd him in that tiny pot - he has room to grow now though, he'll be OK. I'm just so glad he made it. I feared for him all winter long.

Stay inside at night is my maxim! Unless it's midsummer and properly light and even then, only go out to sniff the stocks and drink wine.

I have some solar-powered fairy lights on the way. I'm hoping they'll be magical, but rather fear we'll be just fending of moths all summer long.