If I ever start talking again about creating a new flower bed, please someone stop me! This project was started back at the start of December and many, many weekends of grafting later it is finally done. I thought I would never finish! I took out about 12 buckets of rubble/bricks/old pottery, a metal saucepan, several bottles, an old trowel, a plastic bat and a large bag-full of plastic including some every odd handle shaped red things. Not to mention tree roots from the nearby hedge and countless bit of couch grass and nettle roots. The ground was light and sandy and quite stony, so I have had to add manure and compost in places and it also needed a fair bit of levelling so that the plants near the path weren’t sitting on the edge of a cliff. I hope this mixed border will be worth it in the end and all the digging will mean that most of the perennial weeds will take longer to invade.