A short time cutting back the ivy exposed the bricks and I filled four trugs with brambles and shrubbery.

It grows like crazy and snipping it encourages the growth. It’s one of my demons. Looks very romantic but it’s resilient and comes back with each prune.

It’s early autumn and I need to tidy the garden before the cold sets in. There were summer plants had come up and died back. They aren’t things I like particularly. In fact pink verbena I don’t like but the seed heads from alliums I do. They were left to dry up and the ones with little black seeds I shook over the beds.

I can only hope for more alliums. They are expensive bulbs to buy.