I think I’ve found a wood anemone coming up in the woodland bed. No sign of any others yet though. Above the bed, I had a blue tit inspecting the nest box quite thoroughly. A wren came to shout on the fence too.

I’ve sown seed in Bed 1 and scattered my own compost over the top. So that’ll probably produce a load of gourds. The plan is to let those seeds germinate to show where they are, then sow some more. I feel like I might need some more flower seed, but I’ll see.

Using the physostegia stalks and some vertical sticks, I’ve built a small dead hedge against the boundary to keep the grass back. I’ve broken down all the stalks of the helianthus, but I’ve broken them down for compost and rubbish. There isn’t really room to built a dead hedge against the fence there, so I’ll probably just keep the grass back from the outside. The ground is currently covered with lemon balm, but there’s not much to do about that.