Full colour!

During the gale!  There in no colour today, except in the tiny cyclamen flowers. Even the crocuses are flattened. 

I could hardly stand in the wind. Lots of willow trees uprooted and branches broken off in John's wood. I stopped and spoke to him and then he rang to check I'd got home okay. Only three doors away, but it was very wild!

Monty Don's Gardens of the Adriatic are very appealling . . . . !