Sunshine! Warm sunshine!

This afternoon we have had the most glorious sunshine… and it wasn’t just nice and bright, but it was warm too, so gardening gloves on, secateurs out, and into the garden.

We have a wall and fence on one side of our garden, and the land on the other side for about five foot is ours and then there is a path leading to the other pt of the village. We have hedging and other plants along the outside of the wall and all the rain we’ve had has set them growing already. I hacked away at the pyracantha which has gone mad, prickling myself mightily in the struggle. I attacked the brambles which seem to grow all year round, and trimmed the holly and Japonica and a plant which I thought was a guilder rose… but isn’t! I thinned the bamboo which was over-shading the flowering currant, murdered a few more brambles, and then with an aching back, ripped hands, but a virtuous heart, I tidied up and went inside, opened the windows to let the lovely air in, and made a cup of tea.