At long last, today we have had some decent sunny weather without the biting wind, so I took full advantage and actually got out into the garden for a short time to start pruning and planting.
The first thing I did was to plant the evergreen honeysuckle that I bought at the end of last year just before the weather turned bad. Because it was too wet and cold to plant when I bought it, I left it in the pot just outside the back door and over the last week it has put on a phenomenal amount of growth. So now it has been planted in a spot up against the wall with a trellis to clamber over and if it carries on growing at the same rate as it has during the last week, it will reach the top by Sunday!
While I was pottering in the garden I was also deciding which plants would have to be moved and which were going to be taken out completely. As I carried on with a bit of pruning and weeding, I attracted the attention of a female blackbird who sat on the top of the wall watching me for a while before flying off again.
I don't know whether it was the sound of the secateurs or the smell of earth being disturbed that attracted her but when I came in for lunch, she was down where I had pulled out some weeds. After turning the soil over and scratching about for a few minutes, I saw her fly off again, but this time with a beak full of worms, probably to feed her young.
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