Very green fingers!

This morning I thought I would get into the garden and do some dead heading and pruning as the weather was cloudy with a stiff, cool breeze which suits me just fine if I'm working. As you know. I don't do heat so I have to either do things in the garden early in the morning before the sun gets round or wait until it is very cloudy.
After having breakfast, I was just about to go out when I noticed Sqidge having his late breakfast and Squish (his friend) was also out there digging up nuts that they had buried yesterday. I thought I would leave them undisturbed and do something else until they had finished even though they knew I was waiting (yes, sad person that I am I do talk to them)!
Anyway, several jobs and an hour later the two squirrels left so out I went and started dead heading the roses and pruning back some of the new growth. I only did this last week but I was amazed at just how much everything has grown in the garden in just one week! It is very rare that anything I plant refuses to grow so I know I've got 'green fingers'.
Now I had said to the old gentleman round the corner, whose garden I also do, that I would pop round this afternoon to dead head his roses too (luckily his garden is much smaller than mine).
I only put the roses and other plants in for him a year ago and all of them have grown but to twice the size they were supposed to. In fact there were a couple that didn't winter at all well but in April I pulled off the dead growth and told him that if they didn't recover by June we would have to replace them. Well, I must have the magic touch because these too are now more than twice the size they were last year and look very healthy indeed.
From tomorrow the weather is supposed to be fine and dry without the wind so perhaps I will be able to sit outside in the afternoon to watch everything grow!