Tuesday 1.

Photo of transplanted bonsai yew tree in new 'sink garden'

Can anyone tell me what this is ? (bet Judy- or Maggie- knows). The photo doesn't do the colour of the plant justice; it's more of a gentian blue. It looks almost like a cultivated dead nettle, but gives a lovely splash of an unexpected blue.

Ann has always wanted a thyme lawn, but as we don't have room for a lawn, we put three different sorts of 'creeping thyme' in a necessary join in the garden path. It's necessary because the path slopes down from the garden gate towards the house, and the earth and gravel filled gap acts as a soakaway when it rains (and grows thyme). We walk over it daily, and as our shoes brush it , it releases a thymey, herby, scent. Ann's idea - works well.
Being called up for supper. More later perhaps.