Anyone prattling on about moderation on a forum needs to be told to shrug their shoulders and accept that it's not their gig. If I ever catch myself prattling on about it I nearly always end up by saying that. You can always start your own bloody forum and employ your own bloody rules!

In the gardens I visited today there were huge clumps of Summer Snowflakes, Leucojum aestivum, looking for all the world like overgrown snowdrops. But my favourite sight of the day was an enormous Magnolia campbellii, about sixty feet tall with masses of the most ridiculously beautiful, over-the-top pink flowers and great big furry buds that you just had to stroke. On the grassy areas underneath were great drifts of hoop-petticoat narcissi, Narcissus bulbocodium. Life-affirming!