I had a day off work today so tried to get on top of gardening tasks - the most basic was just clearing more of the debris after Storm Arwen’s visitation. I’ve had to remove a lot of the twisted remains of the jasmine. I am very sorry to have lost this as it made a wonderful place for the birds to hide.I still need to take two of the arches down as they are beyond repair. I have bought a new one so that the will be something for my perennial sweetpea to clamber over.

Ben kept a weather-eye on me while enjoying some wintery sunshine. He likes to be around me in the Magic Garden but is always wary of getting stuck out in the cold at this time of year

When I cleared away some of the debris of the sweetpeas I could smell the most gorgeous scent even though it was difficult to identify exactly where it came from. It is the scent that belongs to my apricot coloured agastache as seen her below the white perennial sweetpea. I plan to move the latter as it drapes itself over the rowan tree rather than its metal arch.