A Bug's Life

We have had the medical appointments phase of the holiday (except dentist tomorrow and one got cancelled and rescheduled, and another has to be repeated - bah!) and the visiting mother phase. We got a lot done on the garden - mostly working out what to actually do with it, as in five years it's not evolved much past rectangular bit of grass. I now have a fuchsia and six different sorts of lavender, all potted up and ready to grow (or die horribly). If I want a buddleia as a shrub I think my best bet might be to go to a bit of waste ground and pull up a self-seeded stem :-) Mum weeded the lawn, and the rain is giving it a nice soak but I don't think it'll turn the brown bits green. It's all very complicated, working out what would go where, whether it would survive, what it'll look like in a couple of years. I wonder if I should give it up and go back to baking...