Today I decided to do a bit of gardening, clearing out the leaves and last years foliage from the front border. I enjoy gardening but find it hard work as bending down restricts my breathing but my knees do not appreciate kneeling or crouching. I tend to use the giraffe's technique, legs apart, to get close to the ground. The frost seems to have been strong enough this winter to make the acanthus die back to ground level, previously I have had to cut it back so that the new shoots can come through, so I was able to rake out the leaves etc fairly easily. While pulling up the dead montbresia leaves, I found lots of green shoots and a green frog! I left a patch of leaves in a corner for him but as we don't have any ponds nearby, I assume he is just passing through.
