A busy day

Today we finished trimming the hedge at the back of the garden and while picking up all of the clippings from the Leylandi hedge, I tackled the thistles and brambles which grow right underneath the hedge. The day started very damp and overcast, and I decided this would be a perfect day for some hard work and 'proper' digging, but in fact the sun broke through and it was far too hot, but I'd started, so I had to finish. The rockery corner needed a good going over, and I spent an hour, digging, tidying, picking up hedge trimmings and taking out the forget-me-nots which had started to turn brown (didn't see any frogs today). I moved some of the small euonymous plants to fill a gap near the front. The red poppy is doing splendidly, loads of buds still to open. I have now cleared an area where I will probably plant another buddleia, because I want something fairly tall, but graceful, and we love butterflies. In the rest of the garden, the honeysuckle flowers are coming on and should be out in a few days, my two little skimmias are forming berries which will be scarlet red, the pinks (Doris) are 'almost' open but my poor hosta has taken a battering from the slugs - look at the holes! The fern at the front of the rockery looks great, I didn't plant it, but there are loads next to the road so maybe a seed/spore blew in. Actually, I noticed a sunflower growing through my busy lizzies in one of the pots, perhaps my birds have dropped a seed from the bird table.