This is a shady, skanky bit of the garden, at the top of the back passage where it meets the main bit. At the moment it is one of my favourite parts of the garden. This is partly because I saw a toad (THE toad?) there the last time I looked and it glowered at me and plodded off.

It’s partly because it’s made out of old bits of weeds that seems to be beautiful and to have come from I-don’t-know-where.

Marion gave me a ceramic bread bin which broke, so I planted it up as a pot. It’s been there for years, and this year, all the cultivated plants had died or got too big. So it just had wild flowers left. I wanted it for the kids for some of the things I got from Core (I LOVE buying things from the Core garden) so I emptied out what was left alive into the skanky bit of the garden and gave it one water and it just got on with it.

I think there is self-heal, and Lady’s bedstraw (or a kind of bedstraw?) and Good King Henry and Herb Robert. And I love it.