Today: Honeysuckle, Trory Street: Fox gloves, Allens Lane: Ferns, Passageway between Allens Lane and Eagle Walk. Delivery collage

Noticing plants connected to my childhood today, when I was young I had a bedroom with a honeysuckle outside. The room was on the ground floor of the house and everyone else slept upstairs. At night, in the wind, the honeysuckle would tap on my window and my imagination would run wild. So for me the honeysuckle has sinister gothic overtones. Likewise the Fox glove, the heart stopper. My Dad love telling us about how poisonous this flower. Finally ferns, which were an endless feature of the Welsh countryside where we walked. Again a plant that inspired storytelling from my Dad – an ancient plant.

Highlight of the day was seeing a family of Montjack deer walk across the drive I turned down in Newmarket Road. Too quick for me to capture a photo – hoorah for the relative stillness of plants.