It was wet this morning when I toddled off to work so it was a pleasant surprise to come home to find it had dried up and even has occasional sunshine.

The usual distractions meant that I was busy with the macro photography. I also did a bit of real gardening including starting to plant gladioli bulbs out. I’m planning to get the remainder in tomorrow and Tuesday together with some peacock orchids. I think they will need to go into troughs as I’m running out of empty garden.

I had a very satisfactory, if probably futile, session squashing caterpillars on the gooseberry bushes and then I made a rhubarb leaf solution and doused the bushes in it. Hopefully this will help and the nematodes should arrive soon so I can get better protection in place.