I now have a new fence between the neighbours & me and so I have matching on three sides. It looks raw and exposed so I think I will have a long fence painting session. I need to do quite a lot of tidying up with removal of the old arches, bits of debris & pieces of rubbish. The arbour seat is back in position but needs some TLC if it is to remain in place. I couldn’t face doing much today.

Hidden away under where the arbour seat had landed I found two wee hellebore so deeply purple that it looks black.

It was though cheering to turn round and notice that a wee patch of dark blue-purple Iris reticulata have come out. I love these flowers. They are known as netted irises characterised by a fibrous net surrounding the bulb. It is native to Russia, Caucasia & northern Iran.