1 A lovely long email from my sister-in-law in Atlanta giving me all their news.
2 I love it how gardening makes me remember people. Today it’s the very small crinodendron hookerianum, with so many amazing lanterns this year, only three last year (Mum and Dad and their good friend Eddie), planting Cosmos (Bill’s Dad who gave me plugs the year he died and they kept flowering until the first frosts), night scented stocks, just tiny seedlings at the moment, ( KJ as a very little girl of 3 or 4 who used to wake up at about 10pm night after night. We used to take her out into the garden on summer nights to smell ‘the night flowers’ and then she would happily go back to bed.) And now, seeing the uncurling fern, my lovely sister Daisy who emailed to say that she too loves to see the uncurling ferns but in Hawaii they are 30′ tall!
Crinodendron Hookerianum
3 A delightful little snail – I know they eat my plants but just look at him on the edge of the ice cream tub!
Small Cornish snail