Oh all right then
This morning, at about seven o’clock, just after my weekly forty-minute run, I looked despairingly at the weed in my lawn that does small yellow flowers and spotted a rather high-quality moth.
Thanks to http://www.butterflygarden.co.uk/moths.htm I can fairly confidently identify it as Tyria jacobaeae or Cinnabar moth. At least something likes the weed that does small yellow flowers.
The peony decided that procreation was more important than retribution, and did the following:
I spent a couple of hours pulling out more weeds and planting my tomatoes. I left it a bit late this year. One of the tomatoes keeled over just as I was about to plant it and broke its stem, but that still leaves me three plants, which is plenty.
The campanula portensclagiana has started making the most of having a pot to itself and is producing leaf and flower shoots with a fair amount of verve. I was worried that it might not be vigorous enough to hold its own in my garden, but I think it will do just fine.
I forgot to mention that on Wednesday I took some more cuttings from the lavender and rosemary at work. My first attempt, earlier this year, didn’t work at all. I suspect it is still too early for semi-ripe cuttings but I decided to try anyway. I also took some cuttings from the elaeagnus. So far they are not at all droopy or brown round the edges, but it is early days.