The most frantic section of the gardening year is over……in theory.
Most plants – annuals, vegetables, tomatoes, dahlias etc – are in their permanent summer season positions and growing healthily.
Topiary has been clipped.
Harvesting has begun.
Many flowers are looking their best.
The hard work now involves maintaining flowers, colour, structure, health and vitality all the way through until the first frosts strike us in (hopefully) late Autumn or early winter.
I will be deadheading, watering, staking, tying in, weeding, feeding, nurturing, harvesting, edging, coaxing and pest-controlling for the foreseeable future. I will try to take a few minutes here and there to stop, look around me and feel happiness and satisfaction…..before I scurry off to repeat the tasks listed above! Shampoo, rinse, repeat……
