Over the last few days I have been putting in a renewed amount of effort in the garden.

I finished planting out the front beds with home grown dahlias and bought cosmos plants and have got the hedge trimmer on to the rosemary hedge and the white rose bush in the front garden.  Both will need further, and more severe, tidying up later in the year, but for now they look presentable.  I used some of the rosemary clippings as cuttings with the view that it might be best to replace the whole hedge.  I also got some box cuttings going to give us the option of using low hedging to divide up beds on the allotment.

I managed to get both of the lawns raked and mown despite the threat of showers.  I have also started the next phase of propagating.  I have started to split the blue primulas that we have in readiness for using these to plant up the front border to its new blue/white and yellow palette.