After the wet weather we have had, my little walled garden is suddenly as tall as it is wide with the advent of warm weather! My Victoria Plum tree - planted fairly close to the house 'cos it's a "dwarf" (but now has other ideas, it seems) is so laden with fruit that I am convinced that it is going to sweep the floor with its branches before long. I have had to remove one small branch that came across the path and was leaning on the kitchen window. Things have never put on so much growth! Even my vegetable patch is rampant. The pink fir apples have caught up with the kestrels.
My unnamed (but I think it's "Ispahan") shrub rose (10 feet and still going) is perfuming the whole garden. I have for many years treated it more as a climber by pulling over and securing many of the tall shoots it sends up every year. Then it sends out lots of flowering shoots. I didn't trim my gallicas this year, but they don't seem to mind.
The water lily has flower buds forming. It flowered for the first time last year, and looks like it's going to repeat the favour.