Warmest it’s been this year! Spent some time in the garden enjoying the 17C sunshine, and battling ivy versus tree. Here’s a buddleia bush which refuses to be beaten back, next to a (Cherry I think) tree which the ivy is trying to reclaim and is also still alive somehow under the ivy.

Buddleia bush (left) next to ivy-covered tree, which looks dead but has buds on the top most branches. The buddleia bush seems to be trying to rival the tree for height (by sending one shoot up quite tall which is possibly being helped by ivy)
Jess Robinson @castaway