3:15 project, updates 14 and in fact 15

I've got fed up at being a week behind; and the differences over the last couple of weeks have been largely invisible at my usual photographic angles; so here we go...

Additionally, I've discovered that my newly-installed IE8 (which everyone I've whined to about it also hates) doesn't play nicely with Blogger on the matter of photos at all; so I've switched to Firefox for editing. MSFail...

Pic 1, no change really; the limes are getting sticky and unpleasant, but they always do; and I don't have a car to get coated in their rather unpleasant juices and attract wasps, so why should I care?

Pic 2, the hanging baskets are growing in and getting pretty (and they're the miner's canary for the rest of the outdoor stuff... if they start wilting I know watering the other pots outside is urgent...)

Pic 3: the main difference - the loss of the huge holly bush - is at the far end of the garden and so unnoticed... you can see a chunk of it on the right-hand side of the patio though most of it is in the green bin...

And no 4: up the garden...

The lilies are preparing to bloom. So far no sign of lily beetles but I'm not holding my breath...

I put in a new edging on the bed under the rose-bush - it's not the straightest edging ever, but it will do the job, and I have another stretch of the same stuff (bamboo sticks fastened together with wire, from Wilkinson's) to carry on the work... I planted some bronze-leaved dahlias (which I have no great hopes of, the snails having feasted on them before they even made it to the flower-bed) and a perennial geranium (which might survive)...

And possibly the earliest ripening tomato I've ever had. This is from a very spindly plant I bought way too early and which sat on the kitchen windowsill for months growing upwards but never bushing outwards...