Digging up nettles

Another joyous day in the garden as the jetstream heads north leaving the country bathed in sunshine.  Our lovely neighbours Ron and Bar invited us for lunch so that we could spend the most part of the day in our garden.  Mark began preparing the patio area for Geoff who is coming to build a retaining wall, lay a patio and build a garage in a few weeks time while I dug up a few barrow loads of nettle and bindweed roots in the border to the left of the picture.  If this weather keeps up in a week or two this job will be far more hazardous (even today I managed to get bitten on the bum), so the job is well timed.  As a reward for my efforts I have treated myself to an online plant order, and will think of little else until it arrives.  And with all this feel of Spring in the air, I might pay a visit or two to Millbrook this week as they are having a 2 for 1 offer on hardy perennials.