BEGONIA 'HEAVEN WHITE'

I bought two trays of Begonia 'Heaven White' today and am thinking of putting some of them into a tub as a display. They need moisture and some shade and a tub will let me move them around into the right spot for them. I was going to put them in the border but I really do want a lot of space for when the courgettes are ready to plant out. I've got a feeling that slugs might like them, so I'll need to watch out for that.

I think there is something really delicate and pretty about the little white flowers surrounded by crisp leaves. I know, not to everyone's taste but as I keep on saying to people, white flowers light up at dusk and really enhance a garden at that time of day when all other colours of flowers fade to grey and disappear from view.

I started to cut around the stepping stones today. It means me sitting on the grass and shuffling around as I do it. It's jolly hard work cutting through tough grass and the roots, and needs a strong knife - there must be an easier way - so I only managed to do four today, spread out over a couple of hours. There is one consolation, it only needs doing once a year. You can see the difference between the ones in the foreground and the ones at the top of the lawn. It's a job worth doing, unless you want your stepping stones to disappear entirely. And, yes, I know, the lawn edge needs cutting. And it needs reseeding. And it needs weeding. That's tomorrow's job.