I rebuilt the pond and filled it high with a mix of the tap water that’s been airing for several days and the rainwater I’ve gathered. I’ve now  completely drained the water butts, so a night of proper rain would be good please. Fingers crossed the water level is ok tomorrow.

I used the final 4.5 litres of water to mix up some seaweed, which I gave to the three bear’s breeches, the callicarpa and the three brachyscome.

We had some light rain this morning, which took care of the seed watering that I’m not doing. Bed 1 is turning greener. Some good seeds are coming up, but I know a lot is weeds now. I’ve removed some of the borage that threatens to later block my view. I’ll see how it goes with what I’ve left.

I did some general weeding and edging along the left boundary and here and there. I have more of that to do across the plot. There are some volunteers in Bed 6 that need to be moved, possibly to Bed 1. I dug up some leatherjackets for the coconut, but the robin didn’t seem very interested; the crushed mealworms are much preferred.

I took the English bluebells down to the plot in their pots. Most have gone between the apple tree and fern bed, the pot of 4 is now sitting on top of the bug hotel.

The elder is now coming in to leaf on the small pieces  that were uncut. Looking at the new leaves round on Bob’s side, I found that my grape hyacinth have jumped through the fence. I also noticed that there’s a big clump of physostegia in D’s path.