This year the garden has really taken a bashing

My garden has been a joy but then I don’t expect anything tidy or correct in it, everything grows where it wants and usually fits in really well it was all blues and mauves a week or so ago now with red begonias and lots of black eyed Susies nasturtiums day lilies and montbetia it’s all yellow oranges and reds
I don’t do much I don’t feed it or anything I dead head and tidy and watch and enjoy
I do have a pear tree that is usually very productive but only has three pears on it I thing the high winds blew all the blossom off

Love your garden, BlueBelle - really gorgeous.

Thanks Sparklefizz I actually leave it to sort itself out for the most part it’s only small but got a lot going on in it if one thing fails another takes over
Most of it is self seeded a few things in pots that I ve bought or been given
I have a beach deckchair in one corner (only bit free) and feel like a $100
It’s my little haven

Beautiful colours Bluebelle!

We have had a lovely summer. Even now with the rain forecast to end the dry spell we have had just one half hour heavy shower yesterday and a few sprinkles earlier in the week, not enough to wet the road under the trees. Go down 3mm and the ground is dust dry. I did read of floods elsewhere in my city. Perhaps there is a force field around our area keeping the rain away.

It's been an odd year, Whitewave.

Some things are doing well, others not so.

Some peonies and the roses were splendid, one hydrangea is smothered in flowers, two others looking very sad. Roxanne is flowering merrily away but the penstemons are hopeless this year.
Some fuschias are good, a couple of others will need to come out.

As for the lavender - the Hidcote looks rather sad but still upright, but the other bushes which were sold as Hidcote but aren't are completely flattened.

No beans yet but would anyone like some courgettes?

And it's raining again.

Kali2

Worst year ever in my garden - everything was hacked by hail 3 weeks ago- a sort of natural Chelsea chop - beginning to recover now so hoping for masses of flowers late August.

I was going to ask you how your Chelsea chop went - was it successful?

Or are you still waiting, presumably, for the second blooming?

I'm hoping my roses will come back into bloom. Only one flower at the moment.