End of month view
At the beginning of August I was out of love with the garden - gaps, tired foliage, few flowers and those that were flowering ones I had lost interest in. This always happens. For some reason August is just not my time. Taking these pictures as September came in made me realise that I am engaged all over again. This is the side garden. I know it will look better when the four different types of honeysuckle have grown up over the trellis but I think it doesn't look too bad. The shapes of the foliage, meaty hellebores, airy verbena, spikes of crocosmia and clouds of fennel and cosmos, all please me. At the front of the borders the alchemilla and the hardy geraniums which were cut back a few weeks ago have regrown into satifying hummocks. Some of the individual plants are stars too. I have grown dahlias this year for the first time with some serious attempts to make them settle into my stony soil. Previously I have chucked the odd one and ...