Fallen for them!

Your aster is a very beautiful one, Meadow. I like the airy ones too, they seem to have much more grace!
Obviously, 'editing out' is catching! I find roses less and less rewarding and removed a large white DA rose myself this week. I am pleased you are happy with the results: they look good.

I can understand you need more space between the roses especially as they had blackspot this year Julia.
Mine have grown so big now that I struggle to get through them to prune and spray, but couldn't bear to part with them.
I just love my roses!
Your new aster is very much like mine, but had lost the label and will put a picture up incase you may know the name.
Your garden always looks perfect to me!

Ange the decision was hanging heavy with me for awhile but needs must....I do have 10 others scattered around the borders.
Rose thank you for your very kind comment...it will make life a little easier.
I will look out for your Aster photo...This one is so pretty perhaps yours is similar.

It's a very pretty plant, I haven't heard of it before.
Lovely views of your garden :)

I agree with Hywel, your garden looks perfect to me( the lawns especially) &that is a lovely plant. It needs to have a simpler name tho!

Thank you so much Hywel FF..I do agree the name is ridiculous and not easy to remember...this year I decided not to feed or weed the lawns,just cutting occasionally...they seem to have responded well with lush growth.Maybe I was over fussing before.

your garden is beautiful Meadowland :)

Thank you LL for your kind comment.

Hello again Julia, I have been trying to transfer my recent photos on to my chrome book consisting of the aster.
Not only can I transfer them, now my files have disappeared! So maddening!!

Oh Rose,that sounds frustrating..is there anyone who can help you?..Last week I couldn't show my recent blog...the error page kept occurring. GOY seems very quiet at the moment.

Julia, that really is a lovely Aster. I always forget just how big your garden is ... it looks stunning in these photos.

That's sweet of you to say Shirley.
I've become quite fond of this Aster and hope I can increase it in the Spring. When we arrived here 23 years ago I was so excited to have a good size garden but as the years go on the sentiment has decreased somewhat. Still love it though!

Julia, I am going to contact Tony, the 'Tree man' this week to see if he will not only prune and shape the large Pittosporum, but also do the same with other tallish shrubs as neither Michael nor I feel able to stand on steps with a hedge trimmer or pruning shears these days ... :o((

I will email you this evening.

That sounds a very sensible decision Shirley...I don't use steps at all...the shrubs I trim are reachable....'Hortico' Richard does the high ones.

Thank goodness!

I have a local computer shop Julia and will take it in there to see if they can help. Fingers crossed!

Hope they can sort it for you.Rose..a few members have mentioned the GOY site is running slow and playing up.

Symphyotrichum novi- belgii ‘Vasterival’ that's cetainly a mouthful alright! I wonder how Monty & others would get on with saying it? But as they say about the rose - "'by any other name'", but why can't they leave the names alone?

It's a lovey plant & really stands out in the picture from a distance! All your other plants are lovely too!

Have to look it up every time I refer to it....who ever named it?

That is a very pretty Aster Julia, I have a beauty in my garden that was sent to me by a friend last autumn, its white with only a hint of blue and like yours has grown enormous I love it ... The rest of your garden looks amazing, so much colour, its a credit to you....I have posted a pic of my white one, thanks for the name, I grew up knowing them as Michaelmas Daisies so much easier don'tcha think.....

Thank you so much Sue.My dad always called them Michaelmass daisies..I've left a comment for your lovely white Aster photo.It's a beauty.

I also knew them as Michaelmas Daisies when I was growing up in London! Our local corner shop (yes, it was on a corner!) was below the owner's house & they had a garden with lots of them which I always admired as a kid!