[jambutty]

Sadly, overnight some yobbo broke through my fence and pulled up some of the crocuses, the petunia and some snowdrops and left them lying in a heap on the flags. It wasn’t an animal of some sort because the evidence was in a heap. An animal would have spread the uprooted plants all over. I’ve put them back in place but only the petunia has a chance of recovering to flower later on. The growth in the crocuses and snowdrops will die away and with a bit of luck the bulbs will survive to come up next year. Mindless vandalism!

I should add that although my garden is more like the grasslands of Africa it is edged with breeze blocks between it and the building and the holes in the breeze blocks are filled with soil into which I planted the various bulbs and plants last autumn.