I'm plotting tulips. This is my shortlist, gathered over the year. Not sure yet which ones I will go for, but they all get good reviews. All new to me.
Also plotting rosa Buff Beauty, Cream Abundance and Ghislaine.
My small front garden is such a frustrating dust bowl June to Oct that I am pondering whacking in a deep pond there and have done.
S. Nachtvlinder comes out, as it's too sprawling. S. Clotted Cream and Lemon Pie comes in to the dry garden, whenever we get some rain.
I had all sorts of plans to move plants around but none of those can happen without rain. The Met is saying the drought for London might last through Oct.
I'll be digging out a Cirsium rivulare from the back garden and, if I can't find a new home for it, it'll be going on the compost heap. Nice flowers, loved by bees, but takes up far too much room with big scruffy foliage for most of the year. This is already it's second position in our garden but I'm afraid it's now lost it's appeal.
I did the same with one of mine just the other day @LunarSea. Discarded at least twenty times more than I kept. It had formed a doughnut shape of multiple crowns, so I gritted my teeth and replanted just one single piece. It looks lost but as you'll know, it will soon bulk up. I'm not going to feed it at all in the hope that it doesn't produce those huge leaves after flowering. I love the flower but not the plant! (If it dies in protest there's an even bigger doughnut to sort out....)
Probably Nov. I have been compiling a list since the last lot went over. I'm a sucker for lists. I have gone very soft for toffee/apricot/buff colours. My whole garden might turn toffee/melba if I'm not careful.
I love T.'Purissima', @Fire. An oldie but goodie - very elegant.
As usual I have far too many plans, mostly involving removing more lawn to accommodate the scores of plants grown from seed & cuttings, currently languishing in pots in the shade... it's not nearly as hot & dry here as most of you have, but 26 is quite hot enough, thanks. No hosepipe ban yet, but keeping the young plants happy is a full time job.
I'm very tempted to order some bare root roses from Holland. I know I shouldn't until I've prepared places to put them... someone tell me not to, please!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I am planning further simplifications; I'm going to make larger patches of Sedum 'Matrona' and spread the Sesleria around even more; & remove Miscanthus 'Malepartus' and Rosa 'Rosarie De l'Haye'. Rosa glauca currently in a pot will have to go in somewhere (but where? It's like 3D chess....)
I also have a huge Callicarpa to pop in somewhere! I had planted a couple of Rhus typhina in root bags - I've decided to replace them with Prunus subhirtella autumnalis, so the Rhus will be going into pots. Luckily I have a lot of large pots which I collected to grow Dahlias in - I'm not doing Dahlias next year.
I am going to order more Tulipa sylvestris and turkestanica, and some Allium sphaerocephalon.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
My first plan was to merely reduce the size of my biggest flower bed by around a foot or so along the whole length. In between heatwaves l started digging out, dividing and potting up the plants l want to keep/donate to the charity shop. This has now changed to plans to dig pretty much the whole lot out and replant, so l'm just watering the plants l want to keep. When things cool down again, l will start digging the next lot out, if l can get a spade in the soil. At the moment the garden looks like a cross between a garden centre, a builder's yard and a crime scene. (The photos were taken a week or so ago, it looks even worse now).
Some dwarf tulips, (big ones just get blown over here) and Snowdrops to complement the crocus and daffs already there. Going to try some Winter veg in the Pt, beet spinach, beetroot and some other brassica type thing I forgot are already started. If I have time i'm going to try and heat a veg bed in the Pt from a compost heap outside.
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Discarded at least twenty times more than I kept. It had formed a doughnut shape of multiple crowns, so I gritted my teeth and replanted just one single piece. It looks lost but as you'll know, it will soon bulk up. I'm not going to feed it at all in the hope that it doesn't produce those huge leaves after flowering. I love the flower but not the plant!
(If it dies in protest there's an even bigger doughnut to sort out....)
As usual I have far too many plans, mostly involving removing more lawn to accommodate the scores of plants grown from seed & cuttings, currently languishing in pots in the shade... it's not nearly as hot & dry here as most of you have, but 26 is quite hot enough, thanks. No hosepipe ban yet, but keeping the young plants happy is a full time job.
I'm very tempted to order some bare root roses from Holland. I know I shouldn't until I've prepared places to put them... someone tell me not to, please!
I also have a huge Callicarpa to pop in somewhere! I had planted a couple of Rhus typhina in root bags - I've decided to replace them with Prunus subhirtella autumnalis, so the Rhus will be going into pots. Luckily I have a lot of large pots which I collected to grow Dahlias in - I'm not doing Dahlias next year.
I am going to order more Tulipa sylvestris and turkestanica, and some Allium sphaerocephalon.
In between heatwaves l started digging out, dividing and potting up the plants l want to keep/donate to the charity shop.
This has now changed to plans to dig pretty much the whole lot out and replant, so l'm just watering the plants l want to keep. When things cool down again, l will start digging the next lot out, if l can get a spade in the soil.
At the moment the garden looks like a cross between a garden centre, a builder's yard and a crime scene. (The photos were taken a week or so ago, it looks even worse now).
Going to try some Winter veg in the Pt, beet spinach, beetroot and some other brassica type thing I forgot are already started.
If I have time i'm going to try and heat a veg bed in the Pt from a compost heap outside.