Friday evening seems to be quite a good time to get the deadheading done ahead of the weekend. I filled a bucket with deadheading and a bucket with weeds, mostly because I cut down the huge weed by the compost bin (currently blocked by the enormous poppy) before it set seed.

The bark from the bank had been kicked into pond and it had fallen apart, so I’m clearly going to have to give up on this idea and turn this to soil and stones with a low-growing plant. Creeping Jenny is evergreen, so the best option to try and establish.

The first loosestrife flower has opened and it looks like that will be a pretty plant. Here’s to it self-seeding along the bank.

Also newly flowering is the callicarpa with tiny pink flowers. And the first cornflower is open in the woodland bed.