July was
quite rainy and cooler—not summer weather at all, we are longing for some
better weather. I thought there didn’t seem to be much change in the garden
from last month, but when I looked back at last month’s blog photos, I realised
that of course the garden does look different. The borders are full and colourful. The mid to late summer colours are appearing
now
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| bright yellow and orange crocosmia |
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more orange from the heleniums Can you spot Holly the cat under the grass below the heleniums? She's lying next to the cat mint getting very drowsy. |
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| deep magenta pink phlox. |
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| purple buddleia |
My gardening jobs for the last few weeks have been just deadheading and cutting back. It’s been very relaxing to just potter about in this way. It’s that time of year when you can relax and enjoy the garden, just a pity that we haven’t had the good weather to sit out more.
The sweet peas are only just starting to flower. They are what were left over from the allotment, I put some to scramble through the climbers on the archway and others to grow up an obelisk in a grasses bed. Although there aren’t many yet to cut, there are more each time I cut them.
I planted a few sunflowers in pots, these are a dwarf type called 'Choco sun', I'm looking forward to seeing them in flower, they look nice and bushy.
With not as much work to do in the garden we have started to go out more to places which we feel have good safety measures in place now that COVID restrictions are being eased.
We went to
RHS Harlow Carr, see my blog about it here https://margaretspatch.blogspot.com/2020/07/getting-out-and-about-at-last.html and last week we visited an National Garden Scheme garden near Skipton in the village of Carleton-in-Craven. The house and garden were called The Grange.
It was a big garden to walk around with some wonderful herbaceous borders.
I am linking this post to Sarah's blog at http://downbytheseadorset.blogspot.com/2020/07/through-garden-gate-july-2020.html
