My Little Garden 3rd September 2022
All my good intentions of the last two weeks, which involved getting up to date with writing projects in time for a short family holiday, haven’t exactly gone according to plan. The first week disappeared far too quickly and then it was packing for a trip to Kos with younger son, daughter in law and the youngest two granddaughters. I naively thought that I would get a moment or two to myself on holiday, but that just didn’t happen. Happily, a good time was had by all, with no luggage lost at the dreaded Manchester airport, and the hotel was fabulous. Not quite the ‘adults only’ establishments that we have become used to, but great fun.
I was also more than a little worried about how the garden would fare whilst we were away. Some of the containers were moved to shade and put into trays of water, but annuals such as the cosmos were left to the elements (which didn’t involve rain) and I’m not sure I will get any more flowers. Amazingly, everything else seems to have coped well and I have just about enough things to share for Six on Saturday
- Gladiolus papilio
Otherwise known as Butterfly Sword Lily, this perennial hasn’t done too well in the flower producing department this year, but the clump is a reasonable size now, and I can only hope for better things in 2023.
2. Crab Apple
Whilst I was on the floor trying to get a half-way decent shot of the Gladiolus, I looked skywards at my poor crab apple tree struggling under the weight of far too many little crab apples.
3. Clematis
Despite the drought, Miss Bateman is having a go at a second lot of flowers.
4. Rosa ‘Ballerina’
As is this lovely rose, which will hopefully bloom throughout September.
5. Scabiosa caucasica ‘Alba’
This was a left over plant that got ‘bunged’ in a partly shaded border. Ideally it prefers full sun, so has been very late to flower. But perhaps that’s a good thing this year.
6. Aster and allium
I’ve tried out a couple of summer flowering alliums this year. ‘Summer Beauty’ was the first to flower and the latest purchase, which is Allium senescens. The latter is only about 30 centimetres high, so looks great at the front of the border and is very popular with the pollinators. I’m not sure it works brilliantly well in front of the aster, so no doubt there’ll be a bit of border tweaking next year.
And that’s it for the first weekend in September. Lots more #sixonsaturday blogs and photos on twitter, including the blog of The Propagator himself https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/
Thank you for reading and have a great weekend.
