Photos by S. Arrowsmith

The herb garden (left) was looking very lush and being very productive this year and the white Lavatera (right) has condescended to remain upright and not grow along the ground as it did last year.  The Lavetera does need major pruning every year just to stop it taking over west Cambridge but advice from the interwebs says that you shouldn’t prune it back until the spring or the shrub could sustain frost damage and revert back to being pink. I keep wondering why that should happen but my biology education is somewhat lacking.