Katy's Garden

A day of disasters. Crawly caterpillars ate half of my ornamental cabbages overnight and my matthiolas as well, hard rain bent "Ayesha" to the ground, its spoon like sepals collecting so much water, The wind flattened the H. quercifolia, a tray of foxglove seedlings was overturned, sending 25 baby plants all ahoo, one of my three plants of sweetpea was pulled by mistake while weeding, and one of my growing pumkins was misteriously slashed and pierced, ina Zorro like vindictive style. No idea how THAT happened.
In days like this one should probably only crawl back in bed to be spared further troubles.

Yesterday I took a number of boxwood cuttings, and I believe I will take even more in the next days. I dug steps into the steep bank dividing the garden proper from the kitchen garden and I intend to flank it with a low hedge of box and lavender. I hope that if I can impose some structure and order in the layout of the garden the flaws of the former planting can be obscured a bit. They cannot of course be obliterated bet perhaps they can be made to fade in the background.