I am really enjoying my garden at the moment - working in it, looking at it and just being surrounded by it. The bean poles are up, the rose buds are starting to open and the Honeysuckle has never before been so solid with blossom and fragrance.

It is such a blissfully busy time in the garden, not only for the gardener, but for the insects and birds too. And of course it is the time of year when my work is full-on and yet so enjoyable. (Except from those rainy days when the rain really does seem excessively wet!)

I am also concentrating on the preparations for this year’s show garden at the Shrewsbury Flower Show in August. Last year was ‘Synchronicity’ and this year will be ‘The Lupus Garden’.

I was recently asked if that meant that the garden would be full of wolves? No, Lupus is an auto-immune disease, and my garden will be calm and restful and full of flowers - not wolves. (If you are unfamiliar with Lupus go to www.lupusuk.org.uk)

Several charities sponsor show gardens - but this one will be different. Although it has the full support of the charity Lupus UK, I shall receive no outside funding or sponsorship - this is something close to my heart and for me, a way to raise awareness for this little known condition.

It’s a first too, as apart from a ‘sponsored flower bed’, Lupus has never had a show garden.

So once again the garden is filling up with armies of small, well nurtured plants and I know that in no time at all the pots will have over-flowed their allotted space and overtaken our lives… again.