My Little Garden 19th August 2023
This week it has felt like the end of summer is fast approaching. The summer stragglers are finally starting to get their act together, and the berries on the pyracantha are turning orange. Autumn beckons, but are we ready for it?
For my part, bulb orders are compiled if not all submitted, and after a week of no childcare duties, the accounts are done, and pension paperwork has been perused. My various pensions are slightly complicated due to a company I worked for going into liquidation over 20 years ago, but future income looks reasonable if not exactly as originally planned. Despite ‘retirement’ looming in a couple of years, I can’t imagine just pottering around the garden and going to the gym, so business as usual then. In the meantime, here’s my Six on Saturday.
- Rose
The Generous Gardener is a lovely rose. It’s not my favourite, but the scent is lovely, and it hides an ugly bit of fence between us and our neighbours.
2. Geranium
‘Ann Folkhard’ scrambles through a weigela, which looks fairly boring after the flowers have gone.
3. Allium
It’s good to see alliums in the height of summer, and the bees are happy too. This is the appropriately named ‘Summer Beauty’.
4. Sedum
Hylotelephium matrona. Something else for the bees and butterflies.
5. Geranium ‘Cloud Nine’
This is flowering for the second time this year after I got really tough with it and completely chopped it back to base.
6. Thalictrum
This has suffered a bit in the wind, but at least it’s low enough to photograph.
That’s it for another week. Have a great weekend, and please take a look at all the other blogs and photos under the hashtag #SixonSaturday
See you next week for the last Saturday of August.
