Well, I finally did it.

For 4 years now I've been saying I'll cut the buddliea down to size.. I'm just now in from doing that. What was a 15ft, lopsided and top heavy bush is now a 5ft trunk with lots of side shoots to flower this year.

I'm pleased with the resulting light, the fence is still intact, it needed to be done for the good of the bush (snow broke a branch off) and the rest of the garden, but I feel a complete cad because I discovered in it, 2 tit nests I hadn't previously seen and made a lime hawk moth caterpillar temporarily homeless.

I'm leaving the cuttings to wilt down a bit, give the other creepies a chance to find a new home in the ivy, before dragging them through the house to be taken to the tip over the Easter break.

I'm off to the garden centre later this afternoon to see about some bedding plants. My primroses were decimated by cats digging, and I just buried my little blue bulbs (possibly scillia but I can't remember) under buddliea cuttings. On the plus side, my tulips (which I don't remember buying) are in bud, with the merest hint of colour around their lips... yellow in this case... having survived the snow and cat maulings.

LTS