It rained last night, but was lovely and sunny today. I made a start on strimming the ridiculously long grass in the plot. I managed half of it before giving in, raking up what grass I could. The two buckets of grass are a good addition to the compost heap, on top of all the cutting down.

The pond was full of algae, which was easy to pull out. There were several big damselfly larvae in the algae, which had an immediate instinct to hide and get back to the water. The shrimps aren’t that clever and need more help.

The veronica on the far side of the pond is thriving and a bee fly came to visit all the flowers.

The coreopsis has fallen apart in the middle. I should really see if I can split and rearrange it better.