We've had a bit of a cooldown this week but we're completely past the freezes. Now we're into Tornado season. The garden is looking lovely, and I'm still digging out raised beds to finish planting my crops for this year.

I've assessed the winter damage - I lost a number of plants. A lavender vitex (it usually blooms blue) died but there are suckers from the base so I have my fingers crossed I'll be able to regrow it. I had to cut out a lot of dead branches from a large rosemary on the north side of the house, and my bay laurel has been looking dreadful, but once the dead branches are trimmed it is back to it's old self, though diminished by about 1/3.

SRS