The Garden Year: September 2021

Hello there and welcome back to my garden linky, which opens at the start of each month and stays open for the whole month - meaning you can link up at any time. You’re welcome to link any posts that have a garden theme - this could be your garden, the plants you’re growing or the gardens you visit, or anything in between - just so long as it’s related to gardening.

Plants in their prime this month

  • Fuchsias

  • Hydrangeas

  • Periwinkles

What to do in the garden this month

  • Divide herbaceous perennials - it keeps them healthy and ensures they continue to perform, and you get free plants!

  • Pick autumn raspberries - and if you don’t have any, look into these for next year.

  • Collect seeds from perennials and hardy annuals, why miss the opportunity of free plants?

  • Plant spring flowering bulbs, trust me you’ll be very grateful to organised you next spring.

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The Garden Year: August 2021

Hello there and welcome back to my garden linky, which opens at the start of each month and stays open for the whole month - meaning you can link up at any time. You’re welcome to link any posts that have a garden theme - this could be your garden, the plants you’re growing or the gardens you visit, or anything in between - just so long as it’s related to gardening.

Once again I’m sharing more from Alan Titchmarsh and collating information in these posts which is widely available in the public domain.

Plants in their prime this month

August is the culmination of months of effort, and as is so often the weather determines how your garden will fare. Very dry weather means there’s little lawn mowing to do, and there’s less weeding too and hopefully there’ll be time to sit and enjoy your garden. If it’s wet, as it has been here, everything - including the weeds - grow more quickly!

Through writing this post I’ve been able to name one of the plants in my garden. The plant came from my dad and he thought it was some kind of South African fuchsia, and he wasn’t far wrong. It’s a Phygelius capensis - exactly, or more widely known as a Cape figwort. It’s flowers are like bunches of bright orange-red tubers, and it’s growing wildly at the moment in our garden.

Japanese anemones, hardy fuchsias and phlox, and of course sunflowers should also be in their prime this month.

What to do in the garden this month

  • Water and feed plants regularly, especially those in pots.

  • Take cuttings from herbs.

  • Cut strawberry runners from the parent plant.

  • Harvest French and runner beans, lettuce, beetroot, courgettes and enjoy!

Watch out for, get ahead and last chance

  • Watch out for slugs and snails.

  • Get ahead by staking tall plants to prevent them being flattened by strong winds.

  • Last chance to finish summer pruning of wisteria.

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The Garden Year: July 2021

Hello there and welcome back to my garden linky, which opens on the 1st of the month and stays open for the whole month - you can link up at any time. You’re welcome to link any posts that have a garden theme - this could be your garden, the plants you’re growing or the gardens you visit, or anything in between - just so long as it’s related to gardening.

Once again I’m sharing more from Alan Titchmarsh and collating information in these posts which is widely available in the public domain.

Plants in their prime this month

July is peak flowering for most gardens with perennials, bedding plants, containers and hanging baskets - I’m sure that we can all visualise those, I know I can. And visualise is what I need to do, my garden’s not much of a flower garden and as MOH has said in the past, is mostly green.

But we do have some flowers, and our agapanthus are doing well this year - we’ve about eight flower bunds on each plant, which I’d kept covered up much longer than usual.

As well as agapanthus, look out for fuchsias, pelargoniums, lavender, penstemons and crocosmias. All bring great colour, and some great scent to the garden.

What to do in the garden this month

  • Deadhead, deadhead and deadhead again.

  • Keep vegetables well watered if it’s dry, which depending on where you are, may not be necessary right now, but if we ever get warmer weather it’ll be essential.

  • Grow new strawberry plants from the runners - plants for free, always a plus in my book.

Watch out for, get ahead and last chance

  • Watch out for containers drying out.

  • Get ahead by ordering spring flowering bulbs.

  • Last chance to plant out those bargain bedding plants.

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