A garden of my own

Ginny and I have spent the morning scratching in the dirt as Mrs Weasley says. I helped set out new lettuce sets in the main garden, but most of the time I was working on the plot that Mrs Weasley has set aside for me. It's really very kind of her, because I know she needs as much space as possible to grow vegetables, but she told me that I could grow whatever I please in my own corner. So with Ginny's help, I'm setting out a little cottage-type garden, with flowers. There will be a small knot of herbs, and that's rather organised and formal, but otherwise I like flowers to be bounding up and slopping over in a sort of fountain of colours. Mrs Weasley is giving me some delphiniums to put in the back, and there's silver cauldrons (because I love the way they glow in the dark) and yarrow and eastern dragontails and cowslip and common mallow and broom dazzle and selkie tears. And little things to tuck into corners. Sweet William and pixie kiss and forget-me-nots and primroses and pansies. Not the sort of thing that Mrs Brown likes on her grounds, really.

I suppose Mrs Brown will be shocked at the state of my shoes tonight if I forget to use a cleaning charm before returning home. They are rather muddy.