Before

I left it too late to put grass seed down last October, but it's probably just as well - the entire area where soil is now visible was covered in rampant bluebells until this evening. It's been two days work removing them and digging out some of the remnants of ground elder and other unidentified weeds. I've enjoyed being accompanied by a tame blackbird.

Every year I tell myself I'll dig up the bluebells after they have flowered and every year I don't, and they reproduce exponentially. So this year I have been brutal. But I chucked a fair number of the dug-out bulbs among the remaining bluebells in the flower beds.

So next, grass seed to feed the pigeons.