It's only 10am as I type, so there is plenty of time for things to go normal. But I've just spent some time hacking back the garden. I am in now before the bees get moving and realise that the lavender has been pruned back. I wanted to reclaim some of the garden. I think in some places I reclaimed eighteen inches! I've had to reclaim footballs from the lavender for the lads. I don't blame them for asking me. The lavender is enormous, and full of some very assertive bees. I use a long brush because I'm not really up for getting close and personal to that many buzzers.
To be honest, I've not done a good job, and the edge is woefully uneven, but I can get to places now. Here is 'before' (well, middle of August, it had spread since then)
And here is the 'after'
I left the top still in place for something for the bees. There is also a full flowering fuschia and some roses still going as well as stuff outside the garden.
Tomorrow I sort out the tomato plants.
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