Gardening
vacation prevented my ritual end of month photo pickings , so these were taken about a calendar week into September . nigh enough , I ’d say .
Rear Garden
First the overhead blastoff , taken from the stars by gardening aliens , probably using some variety of interstellar telescope app .
I ’m keeping a near optic on the patio pot too , they are breeding . latterly add together were a number of dahlias , a mix of pukka plant purchases , some seedy ( now respectable ) pity bench bargains and several biff - ravaged refugees from my mete . I want to get into the habit of a monthly pot purchase , I would quickly build up a good inventory of gracious stool to supercede the dim pail that currently make up most of the display . I am also beginning to realise that I am storing up a problem – I usually habituate those black buckets for the natural spring tulip display . Most of the plants in them now are perennials , there mostly because there is n’t way for them in the border . I have about two months to figure that out as several hundred tulips await the place .
The Patio Border . Strange things have happened to the cercis canadensis . Half of it appear to have die . The leaves suddenly shrivelled up and overlook . Apparently it is a moody Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree variety . I am hopeful that spicy drying wind was the culprit , or scorching maybe . The other side of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree which is less open seems to be hanging in there . apart from that , I remain well-chosen with the view in the first photo , although I ’m concerned about Lady Emma Hamilton , scrunch behind all that , pretty smothered by the loosestrife . I imagine she will kick on next spring , racing the loosestrife for light . I cut off back two geranium ‘ rosanne ’ that were no longer flower much and were making a bid for world domination . Their severe haircut has left a mo of a yawning gap in the border . The corner needs a scrap of a rethink too . I planted several helenium and salvia to surround the cornus kousa . They have done tout ensemble too good a problem of that , poor ‘ Miss Satomi ’ is omit in action , I trust she is alright .
The gay Border . I put several plants in the key disruption , the result of a clearout of poor performer . I ’m happy with some of it , but I think there remains an opportunity . I ’ve plant a fuchsia ‘ Lady Boothby ’ , a improbable variety that should serve as fence coverage once it settles in . I may also remove the salvia ‘ hot lips ’ , it is a yob . Having cut it back severely in the bounce it is now enormous . I wonder if it require another hack back in mid season , just to show it who ’s boss . The far remnant has been embellished with plants moved from elsewhere in the garden , but I conceive it still looks a bit of a mess , not aid by the wind and heavy rain we had in the last calendar month or two . My plant support feat were not up to the job , it seems , resulting in a leaning tower of helenium . On that topic , I am beginning to dislike the colouring of these flowers , the nonremittal yellow is rather nervy . I now have a few other genus Helenium cultivar which are better colours , perhaps I will split those and replace . Or maybe I ’d be less annoyed with them if they were n’t collapsing about the place .
The Wisteria Border , incorporate The Eye of Sauron . Last calendar month I think I mentioned that I ’d had a bit of a rethink . The back of the border , against the trellis , has been unsatisfactory for some time now , and I was also getting annoyed by the plant in the front , many of which had mature too declamatory . In short , I absent the too - enceinte flora and moved most of them to the back , implant a bunch of fresh plants in their situation . I pick out a really hot and gay day to move them all , but I fix away with it via much watering . It ’s in spades a work in progression , but I ’m happy with it now .
The Lilac Border . I ’m eye up the Joe Pye weed on the left . Today I fancy a fantastic representative in a picture from a garden in Canada , a very vivid purple . It so put mine to shame that I am apt to dig mine up . I have a Taiwanese rhubarb that might just about fit in there , although it apparently gets to 3 m across ! In my defence , I buy it as I think it let to 1 m , but that seems to be the dimensions of the leaf . Oops . Aside from Joe Pye being a disappointment , and inappropriate placing of a very tall cosmos , I ’m fairly happy with this margin , certainly in comparability to this clip last class .
The Shady Border . I think I have the resolution to the fence job . I recently grease one’s palms a suitable Hedera helix – hedera azorica . It allegedly get to upwards of 10 m tall , but I project to trail it along the fencing on wire . This diverseness has orotund leaves and big clusters of amber berries . I also believe I will remove the weigela which has never been in the right place , and I have well coloured weigela elsewhere . No room in my life for plants I do n’t love , so out it should come . That will leave room for something else , of course , a decent job to have .
The Hibiscus Border – again with the helenium ! Tucked behind that is the nominal hibiscus , which did flower but not so you ’d know it . oddly , I like the genus Rudbeckia a lot . Although icteric , ‘ goldsturm ’ has enough of the gold about it to be attractive , and the dark centre tops it off . Behind those crouches a moss rise , ‘ William Lobb ’ . It is doing quite well , getting a chip more twinkle than the other two I planted at the base of like trellis in the Patio Border . I in conclusion planted something at the base of that little trellis on the recession . A burial land for failed plants , I am hopeful that the fuchsia will hitch the trend . I forget which it is , either ‘ lady boothby ’ or ‘ riccartoni ’ . The former is sell as a social climber , really just a tall diversity that can be trained , the latter is just a big shrub that I hope I can prune and civilize for treillage experience .
Side Passage . I have the planter hooked up to the irrigation system now so they all get a daily sparge , and I have to say everything looks a lot happy for it . I consider those planter dried out quicker than I allowed for when watering manually , which is serious when in combination with being a bit out of sight , out of thinker .
Front Garden . those vexing helenium again , I do n’t wish that they are the dominant colour in the front garden at the moment . They may be hold up on borrowed time . I might be tempt to give them one last chance next year with the accession of a Chelsea Chop , something I have neglected thus far . The fencing is less covered than I ’d hoped , so some body of work to do on that next year . I have several clematis waiting for a spot , so that may do it . In the meanwhile I have establish another tall fuchsia . the gladioli have been something of a disappointment , I planted lashings of them earlier in the summertime . They are not growing well , perhaps they are not puzzle enough water via the irrigation system . Some adjustment may be necessary . Perhaps they are just biding their time and will perform better next year . Or perhaps they are just swamp by the overexuberant growing that surrounds them . “ Overgrown ” – that is a word I have been speculate upon latterly . Does it intend the flora that are there have gone a bit unwarranted , naughty plants ? Or does it mean that there are too many industrial plant , naughty gardener ?
That ’s it for August , I ’ll be back in a few weeks for another Border Patrol , when autumn will be well and in truth upon us and the first frost will be nigh .
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