Today I have spent most of the time in the garden re-arranging it and tidying up and I'm almost done. The weather was very warm so I took my time and thought I would start where the garden was in shade. I reckoned by the time I had finished that bit the sun would have moved round and it would be too warm.
I finished the first little area then decided that while there was still some shade on the patio, I would prune the camelia and re-pot it. The task was not as straight forward as I had thought because the pot it was in is quite decorative and resembles lead but is actually made of fibre glass, it also has a bit of a lip on the inside. This meant I could not tip the camelia out so I had to spend quite some time cutting away the roots all round so that I could get it out.
About halfway through I stopped for a rest and made myself a cup of coffee and sat down on the patio step to drink it. Then I had a surprise visitor. A little male house sparrow sat on the fence chirping away and then flew over to the seed hanger and started to eat. I watched him for a good few minutes and kept quite still as I didn't want to frighten him off. This is the very first time I have had a sparrow in the garden since December when the landlady had the garden over the wall at the side of the house cleared.
Hopefully, he will tell all his friends and bring his young to feed when they have fledged too. As for the camelia, it's now sitting in a larger pot and looks quite happy.
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