Here we are with my journal entries looking at the last month of summer according to the the MetOffice. August has been a bright month with confused weather as has been this year’s norm. plants have continued to grow oversized and then flopped.
I began by writing, “August saw the arrival of some unusual pieces of garden sculpture to our garden, 3 corten steel panels and a bespoke bench made for us by sculptor Nik Burns.”
On the opposite page I continued, We both love Achilleas but sadly they are short-lived here, lasting 3 or 4 years only except for the tallest yellow cultivars ‘Goldplate’ and ‘Cloth of Gold’. All Achilleas partner beautifully with grasses and we love planting them together.”
I continued then by presenting a gallery of photos, where I wrote “An August Gallery”.
Garden wildlife features next, “August has been a great time for insects of all sorts. Butterflies are having their best time for years, seeing prolific numbers of all our garden favourites. Now we don’t grow veg we love the ‘Whites’ “
Over the page from my wildlife paintings, I continued “As usual during August we have plenty to do in the garden. I have now finished cutting the Buxus features. We spent hours tidying up in and around the pond and Jude weeded the two green roofs. We also added trellis to the Blackberry archway.”
Collecting seeds. Taking cuttings.
Weeding the woodstore green roof and thinning the pond reeds.
Freshly trimmed cloud pruned box edging.
So that is my garden journal for August and now I am enjoying our patch in September and we will share that month in our garden in my next post in this series.
Over to the next double page spread and I
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One reply on “My Garden Journal 2019 – August”
Very handsome bench! Love the design and materials 🙂