St Mary's Therapeutic Garden is a lovely place and on Tuesdays they welcome people with a wide range of support needs. A lot of today's session was supporting and chatting to others and filling their watering cans. I also started filling one of the large water butts ahead of a hose pipe ban on Thursday along with watering the hydrangeas which were again a bit droopy.

I also had something rather sad to do - remove some chalk markings for hopscotch as the task owners don't feel it is appropriate in a place of calm. Obviously, I tried it out before washing them away.

After another hot, dry week the priority in St Mary's Therapeutic Garden was watering using the heavy, temperamental hoses. Drooping hydrangeas were most in need but achillea and echinops were watered too.

A hot afternoon at St Mary's mainly spent watering in the churchyard and sorting out the temperamental to allow the small pound to be filled with rainwater from the church roof. The shrubs watered included the bay bushes that GG planted a couple if weeks ago.

A lovely afternoon in the therapeutic garden in St Mary's churchyard making some more progress on the raised bed. Today I was excavating last year's leaf compost and layering the new bed - like a mattress for new plants.

A lovely afternoon as part of the regular session in the Therapeutic Garden at St Mary's pruning back a very overgrown honeysuckle and moving lots of soil for a new raised bed.

A session with two purposes at the garden at St Mary's, the first was to walk with my 'coach' and her carer and introduce them to the people running the Tuesday gardening project and then do some work myself. It was a real success on both fronts - Coach M had a lovely time. I was trusted with turning and moving compost!