Sunday

I went down to North Shields Fish Quays today as there was a plant stall at Low Lights for charity. I bought a borage, red orach & a persicaria red dragon.

In my ‘alpine’ troughs my sempervivum are blooming - much more exotic in flower than I expected. I think I will try taking ‘cuttings’ again from these - some of the wee rosettes should take I think with a new crop of flowers next year.

I took out some of the red valerian from both the north and east parts of the central Magic Garden where it was going to seed. This left room to place one of the bush fuchsias that I bought recently that I hadn’t found another home for. I stopped to do some more dead heading and I also trimmed back the arch a bit - I think I will take it out entirely this autumn as an idea that hasn’t really worked. Ben watched all activities with interest.