Today has been bitterly cold with frequent sleet, snow & hail showers but with bright sunshine between. I took a photo from the top floor to try & give an arial view of the Magic Garden. I hadn’t realised how wide my intersecting paths have got but I am pleased how few areas are bare in my tapestry of plants.

I did some weeding and filled the bird feeders but that was the extent of the outside work today

Ben worked his way round from sitting on the hedgehog house in the sun via the arbour seat ending up sitting in his weeping willow pot willing me to be inside rather than outside. He does watch the birds while he’s in the Magic Garden but in reality is quite scared of many of them especially the blackbirds & not unreasonably the herring gulls that plague us from spring to autumn. One of our blackbirds has got quite friendly and allows me to be quite close in the garden.