The rain that was promised has arrived which is most fortunate because the poor plants at Bridge Nursery didn’t get watered yesterday. The trouble is that is was very windy so quite a few were blown over. I’m a bit like a child who doesn’t want to do their homework in that I will avoid doing the watering if I possibly can, it’s so monotonous.

I did some planting last week, adding in some Salvia uliginosa, some sanguisorbias and some penstemon so the rain will help settle them in.

I had the customer from hell the other day, it was someone who was trying to get one over on me. They went and picked up an Arbutus which is £9.50 but swapped labels for something that was £3. I’m not stupid so he didn’t get away with it but if someone had been standing in for me they wouldn’t necessarily know the prices of everything.

It sounds like I’m always grumpy but some people do test me to the limit. Another example is the woman who came the other day clearly doing some research for plants for clay soil. It’s possible she is a garden designer. So she looks carefully at plants in the nursery all the while making notes then goes into the garden and then off she goes. I don’t think much of it until I see that she put just 4pence in the donation box. To have the nerve to use us like that is enough to cause me to despair.