Hedges and bushes; now that summer is almost over these are starting to require attention.. as well as keeping on top of the dead heading, keep those blooms coming!!
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The importance of dead-heading
As the article states, don’t just pull the spent flowers off, use a sharp pair of secateurs and cut the stern back to the next year leaf or not and you will be rewarded with a flush of new flowers.
Recent gardens
Summer is still here.. Just. We’ve had a few very autumnal days.. Chillier in the mornings, and if the sun stays behind the clouds all day, chilliness starting to set in late afternoon. Still lots of colour, Japanese anemones, chrysanthemums, echinacea, rudbeckia, all still flowering strongly and roses of course!
Some amazing colours and forms
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Last week’s gardens
Some of the work done last week.
Early morning planting
6.30 am nice temperature for planting, after yesterday’s overgrown lawn, a nice change to be creative. This lawn had to be strimmed before cutting with a lawnmower, and even that cut will have to be a high one
Latest gardening
Getting nature to help!
Well here in the South East of England, we were having a hot spell..(25 to 31 degrees C). Having lived in Málaga, and various other hot countries, this for me is “lovely” weather! Dry and sunny also means I can use those conditions to try and eliminate unwanted plants, whether they are weeds or justContinue reading “Getting nature to help!”
Busy days
The gardens are in full swing after the cold spring we’ve had. Grass cutting weekly, weeds popping up everywhere. The rewards of the autumn and spring preparation, mulching, planting and pruning (especially the roses) are starting to show.
Clearing
Clearing for a start to a garden that will benefit wildlife..including; some water (wildlife pond), more perennial plants for insects, native mixed hedge for food and shelter. margins of cleared area – kept the comfrey, blue alkanet, herb Rober, nettles, some wood avens, and possibly clearing an overgrown veggie plot and planting veggies; beans, butternutContinue reading “Clearing”
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