Diary of a weekend gardener

1st June - rain

What does it mean if it rains all day on the first day of June? Probably nothing more than that you get a wet garden. Had lunch in the conservatory and watched a wren flitting between the moss lining in the hanging baskets and the house wall. They have an astonishing ability to hold onto vertical surfaces - more like a bat than a bird.

The moss was not the product of pillage from an Irish hillside, by the way. We raked it up off our lawn. 15C, 6mm of rain so far and still raining, but all is lush and green.

posted by Sue Beesley @ 2:38 pm