Glorious August sunshine - gone a little crazy

What a lovely peaceful garden Sheila - just great for sitting under a tree with a good book. I love your Cotinus. I've wanted one for years but it needs a site where the late afternoon sun will shine through the leaves from behind and short of turfing out something else there isn't really a good place for one.
Are you going to keep the Nandina in a pot?

Thank you very much Sue . . . we realise how lucky we are to have such peace! That particular Nandina has stayed small, slightly to my surprise, so it will stay in the pot unless it grows. We have two other Nandinas in our front garden: one is 3ft-4ft, the other 8ft, so there seem to be several different varieties.

What a fantastic garden I love it

Thank you Callie!

All the correct way up on my ipad Sheila. Your garden seems to be in constant sunshine! How lovely! I've been gardening today too. But rain stopped play at lunch time.

Thanks Karen . . . well, it's a mystery to me. Yes, we've been incredibly lucky with glorious weather for the past two weeks, and were still sitting outside at 9pm this evening in a pleasant 20 degrees. Long may it last!

I am turning a curious shade of green! ;)

Karen - I think you had warm sunshine a few weeks ago when our weather was cool and wet?? So maybe it's just our turn!

Sheila - thank you very much :)

Wish it could be our turn! Our village seems to attract all passing clouds!

Your garden always makes me smile as it looks so peaceful and welcoming.

Our cosmos have huge flowers and I won't go for them again, I prefer yours!

So, just hand over your weather and your cosmos please!

Lol Chris . . . it's just chance really! And I was given Cosmos seedlings by our next-door neighbour who told me they were 'dwarf' Cosmos . . . not at 5 ft they're not! Thank you for your lovely comments.

Lovely garden and immaculately kept. That's the thing about plants given to you, you never really know how big they are going to get. I was given loads of Nicotiana by OH's workmate and assumed they were the shorter variety - why, who knows, just an assumption? Of course they aren't, they are beautiful statuesque plants in all the wrong places, too tall for their position. But Hey! it looks informal and the insects love them.
The Hakonechloa macra is lovely and a very 'in' plant, if only we could all afford to have the mass planting that the experts go for!

Thank you Honeysuckle, and I'm glad you're so positive about the Nicotiana :)

The Hakonechloa is amazing - I bought just one plant three or four years ago, and it is so easy to split that I now have six!

Lovely to see your garden in August Sheila ... it has been a really warm and sunny day down here. Tell me, can you keep a Cotinus pruned to a certain height? I ask as I have one in a border and it's beginning to grow too tall! Another plant in the wrong place methinks ...

Hi Shirley - yes, you can! Cotinus are really tough, and I'm always chopping bits off ours when it gets too 'leggy'. They do seem able to grow very tall, but I reckon you could keep it to 6ft . . . is that too tall for you? You'll need to keep at it though - it's quite persistent.

Thanks Sheila, in that case it may have to find a new place in the garden! What was I thinking when I planted it ... silly me!

We all get carried away Shirley - it's part of the fun!

Indeed it is! :o)

You have a wonderful garden, Sheila. I love the cotinus with the artemisia... must be beautiful in the moonlight!

Thank you Lori - I love it too :)