August in the garden...

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To say I’m pleased with it this year is not an exaggeration, its so colourful, often everywhere has looked a tad green between my spring and summer display, this year I manage to fill that gap, some of the plants such as Cosmos, Gallardia and the new Geums that I planted seemed to be at a standstill, however they soon improved after all the rains that we eventually got, unlike last year we haven’t had to put up with brown lawns and saving grey water from the house …

A few weeks back I showed you what was left of my Boston Ivy, I needn’t have worried about losing my autumn colour, I did pop an obelisk in for said ivy to grow up and below is what she looks like now, romping away again..

We’ve been busy this week, we had a fence panel left over from when we replaced the ones to the right as you walk down our yard, it has now replaced the tatty one on the left that separates the yard from the patio and is the beginning of the dogrun…

Not often anyone sees this area, as its the dogrun and area for the waterbutts and anything else that is homeless, lol.( Excuse the silly state of the hedge, my neighbour is moving soon so nobody has touched the garden in well over a year, I stretched as far as I could)…

Also gives us privacy on the patio and acts as a windbreak, we also had a piece of the wrought iron fencing that we used around the patio so it was placed on the top and now matches the rest…Quite pleased with how that has turned out, I needed the extra height as my Handel rose needs something to grow along, it was fun doing that job whilst avoiding the barbs, I used some very strong tying wire to keep the stems out of our way, silly hubby suggested I cut them down, as they’re full of buds you can imagine my response to that … ..

I think hubby did good coming up with that idea, looks lovely, so neat now…
I must add the next one, in all my years I have never seen a cat walking across the hedge, we’ve had plenty over the years but none quite as funny as Toffee…

• 22 Aug, 2019
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