Don't know about autumn fast approaching, it's definitely arrived here, with winter breathing down its neck!
The heavy rain and blustery wind of the last couple of days has removed most of the remaining flower colour, blown away all the flowers on crocosmias and my poor Kierengeshima, & given the dahlias a battering. There's still some Michaelmas daisies to look forward to and one splendid tall, yellow Helenium that has been going strong for weeks. The Moerheims would be better if I had managed to deadhead them, but there were too many flowers to keep up with.
My little maples are colouring up, but the birches have gone all see-through and my Indian rain tree is almost leafless. But now the borders are so depleted, I can get stuck in to lifting and moving things, looking ahead to next year
It arrived late here - it's normally mid August to early September @Buttercupdays You can normally feel the change in the air right at the start of August here. It's been very odd to be so warm - especially overnight through the last couple of months.
Like you, deadheading the Heleniums makes a big difference, and I've been more hands on this year with it.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Interviewing 'slebs' who know something about gardening is bad enough, but the number of times I've heard the 'sleb' saying they know nothing about gardening is ridiculous. They have nothing useful to say, so don't show them.
I disagree, imagine if programmes interviewed just specialists...they would be very dull. We've all seen the obsessives that show up from time to time on GW and they usually make terrible television despite their encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject. Nothing wrong with admitting to not having deep knowledge of a subject if you're willing to learn.
I disagree, imagine if programmes interviewed just specialists...they would be very dull. We've all seen the obsessives that show up from time to time on GW and they usually make terrible television despite their encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject. Nothing wrong with admitting to not having deep knowledge of a subject if you're willing to learn.
I never suggested that all those interviewed should have a deep knowledge of gardening, but at least having an interest further than wanting to get more time on telly would be nice.
You're just splitting hairs, if they're on a gardening programme and ostensibly talking gardening then job done. Also if you watch it on iPlayer just skip the celeb...
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You can normally feel the change in the air right at the start of August here. It's been very odd to be so warm - especially overnight through the last couple of months.
Like you, deadheading the Heleniums makes a big difference, and I've been more hands on this year with it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I never suggested that all those interviewed should have a deep knowledge of gardening, but at least having an interest further than wanting to get more time on telly would be nice.
Have you tried those little mini ones? My daughter loves them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...