My bench!

The banchmaker finished making my bench! It was actually finished and installed ages ago, but I've been too busy sitting on it to post about it!

This perhaps isn't the best photo I could have taken, but you get the idea. The lawn has been suffering a little so I think I'm going to have to get some lawncare treatment - evergreen or 'aftercut' which I saw advertised this morning. My engineer friend has given me the loan of a lawnmower, which the benchmaker used yesterday to make the grass look very neat! Fortunately today we've had some rain after all that hot weather, I hope the garden explodes into action!

I planted this one last year, it didn't really flower in its first year but for about the last three weeks its been showing some lovely blooms. As usual, I planted this one and forgot to keep the label, so I've forgotten what it's called! I saw one in someone's front garden last night on the way to the shop, and it was about 6ft tall!

I didn't really consider how big it would become, and perhaps if I did I may have put it somewhere else, not directly infront of my kitchen window!

Lots of deadheading and care has made these free pansies really very happy, and the baskets and pots look very colourful indeed!

And these are some lovely looking pansies from my mum's garden, as well as some absolutely gorgeous wisteria!

I would love to one day have some wisteria in my garden, though not my current garden - I imagine having a little cottage with a small kitchen garden with a lawn that come right up to the door, and wisteria that trails along a pagoda or over an arch. But! As for now, I'll have to practice in what I have!