After uploading the back garden shot for May 2018, I realised I had May shots going back a number of years to compare:

It is fascinating to look back through photography and see how things have changed – and also a few things that stay constant. For example, the John Downie crab apple (Malus sylvestris) in the centre has grown a lot but the Malus trilobatus on the opposite side of the path has thickened up a bit but hasn’t put on much upward growth at all.