I took the photos below a couple of weeks ago so my garden is looking much lusher now.

I have two apple trees in my garden and they both blossomed well, I live in hope of a crop of some sort.

The clematis alpina below is actually far daintier than it looks in the photos.

Sorbus fruticosa, viburnum and various heathers are growing into each other in the photo below, at some point I’ll have to prune them I suppose, but I hate doing it.

And if you don’t believe that I hate cutting back growth the proof is below, I really need to prune back the red leaved shrub (mind gone blank!) so that the beautiful yellow flowers of the Kerria japonica aren’t so obscured.

The primulas below have been really good this year, if you look closely at the photo you’ll see strawberry leaves in amongst them. I dig them out every year as I never get any strawberries from them, they just keep throwing out baby plants and taking up good planting space, they’re a pain in the neck really and when I heard one of the presenters on the BBC RHS Chelsea Flower Show programme recommend planting strawberries in amongst other plants I didn’t half roll my eyes!

If you’re interested in the Chelsea Flower Show you might like the You Tube video below. I must admit that I watched all of the programmes this week.