I had a good day at work but was glad to be home promptly to find a garden full of sunshine and birdsong. Ben had been out for the afternoon and we sat for a while before he got bored and went to check out the indoors and some of his catnip.

The sun has brought on more blossom and more flowers are out across the garden. In the troughs the osteospermums were fully open . In the ground behind them in my ‘winter interest’ area the dogwoods are in flower - their main purpose in the garden is the colour of their stems but these wee flowers are delicately pretty and the bees seem to quite like them