What a week. After the bat episode, I have been out in the dark with a torch trying to see if my little cat was alright following a terrible noise I heard. To my surprise a vast badger was lurking in the undergrowth and hurridly escaped out of my garden by opening the wooden gate! I was so shocked, I nearly trod on a toad and touched it on it's bottom to see if it was still alive. The toad immediately hopped off and I fell flat on my face into a pile of leaves full of midges and bugs! These are the joys of nightime gardens- they become alive with slimmy and unusual nocturnal creatures!

My daytime activity has been planting up containers for a stall at a fair. I have made some lovely arrangements with herbs. Black peppermint, grapefruit mint,sages, thyme,rosemary,african basil,feverfew and lemon verbena.I also did some arrangements with herbaceous plants in zinc and cream metal baskets.They all looked lovely and sold very well. I can supply a range of unusal herbs and plants in coir pots that can go straight  in the ground and many clients like me to do planters for them like this.

Now it's back to the drawing board to design a lovely garden on a slope!