Plant of the moment.. Cotton Lavender

   I decided to tidy up the curving bed beside the front path today. As usual a simple trim and sweep became a major clear out as I found the Ivy roots and firethorn growing beneath the plastic sheet.  The sheet had clearly been covered in mulch at some point, but time and nature had turned the original mulch into a 5-10cm layer of topsoil.
  In the end the firethorn has been pulled out of that garden bed and a row of cotton lavender planted to provide a bit of continuity.