Some Sun.

The sun made a welcome reappearance today mixed in with a few showers. At times it felt a little colder than recently but the wind is still blowing from the south-west.

Between showers I was able to get  out and work in the garden. I cut back the artemisia in the scree garden and chopped down the decaying brown stalks of different clumps of crocosmia. I left some a bit taller than usual to protect the new shoots that have already begun to appear. I don't know if they will survive any really cold weather. After that was done I began the long but satisfying job of cleaning the stones of moss and picking off all the fallen beech leaves not to mention a few weeds.