Through the garden gate--July 2019

The weather has been beautiful this month, but too hot to do very much gardening. I have pottered about a lot, snipping off dead flower heads and cutting a few things back. But the garden hasn't needed much attention thank goodness and I have taken time to just sit and admire it all.  With having a fairly new garden  I still can't remember all the plants which are in there. So sometimes I have a lovely surprise as a plant comes into flower which I forgot I  planted earlier in the year.

    

The garden has been a riot of colour for a few weeks now.  The bottom border which collects all the water when it rains heavily seemed to suddenly burst into flower with pink astilbes and yellow lysimachias and a lovely pink campanula.  I don't normally put pink and yellow together but it looked wonderful and we were able to see it all from the house.

 This is geranium 'Rosanne' and it is full of bees.  It was in the back of the raised bed last summer and got a bit lost amongst all the other flowers, so I moved it to the front of another bed this year.  It has been flowering for several weeks now and I think it will carry on until the autumn

In the last week there has been a lot of heavy rain and the flowers have take quite a battering, both in the borders and in the patio containers, so I need to get out and do more deadheading.

The sweet peas are now flowering and provide me plenty of cut flowers for the house. I had to cut some of the lavender back last week as it was falling over the path, causing a bit of a trip hazard.  They looked lovely in vases around the house.

I am linking this post to Sarah's blog at 'Down by the Sea' for her monthly 'Through the Garden Gate' post.