Second spraying

After several days of wind, I was finally able to get out with the sprayer again today, so a second treatment has been applied to medlar, quince and apple - also to the stump of the cotoneaster, which I had previously cut right back as it's impossible to spray the undersides of the leaves. Both escallonias are showing black spot reappearing; the one at the front seems to have the infection confined to one side, so I hope to be able to save it by removing all the spotted leaves. I'm not so hopeful about the one at the side, which seems to have a fairly widespread infection so there may be little left of it if I remove all the spotted sections!

At the front we now have a lovely splash of colour with the Japanese quince in full bloom, and attracting bees. Two horizontal wires have been installed so that it can be trained sideways.