has totally gone, and now the garden is just another thing on my to do list, which is awful really! Yours sounds lovely Honey, and the smell in your garden is going to be stunning all through the Summer by the sounds of it. I have a soft spot for sweet peas too, but I love most scented plants. I like the pieris too. I haven' been in this house a year yet so I'm still gettng plenty of surprises in the garden. I don't feel a huge urge (not a sustained one anyway) to do much because I know we'll be moving in a couple of years and this garden is a dreadful swamp. Can't even get the grass cut easily so that's a major chore we have to get round to before the end of the weekend.

Maybe Mum's garden will help me feel more enthusiastic about mine, although it's not so sunny today, quite grey with threats of rain later, so probably not.

Consolation - it's not realistic to start a major business venture and overhaul a garden in the same few months, so the garden's gotta give this year, mostly. I'll toss a few things out, trim some stuff, but a major overhaul isn't going to happen with this owner.

Kerri.