Quick garden update

All the big bamboo chopped down. Roots can be dealt with another time. If they can be dealt with. No birds in the bushes and, sadly, no pandas either. I was mislead by Field of Dreams: If you build it they will come. But they didn't.

Now all that needs doing - to the bamboo - is trimming off the side shoots to create canes. 

As I'm here I might as well show you my favourite climbing rose

and the glorious display on this bush. That's just one bush though it looks quite widespread.

I glance out of the window before I go to bed and see rain. "Oh, good, a lovely downpour. The plants will like this."