Jolly Gardening Weather

Ours is a garden of two halves just now.   One half is the building site, muddy and wet in the extreme.  Here are some of the already dug foundation holes for the piers that will support the extension.   They are 600mm deep and full of water:

But the other half of the garden is spectacularly good.

This clematis is conquering the old iron window frame we removed from the tower long ago.   No clematis would grow up it so I gave up on fancy fussy hybrids and gave 'common-or-garden' a try, with modest success:

I couldn't resist this ?hebe, so densely covered in flowers you can hardly see the leaves.   The bees love it.