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| Cherry Red phlox (left), and September Charm anemone |
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am enjoying picking, from containers, the lettuce, pea shoots, tomatoes, and courgettes which taste as fresh as they look when it is only a matter of minutes between garden and my plate. You cannot eat fresher produce than that.
There's such a lot to do though in the garden, but I'm waiting for autumn now so that I can transplant various plants to fill the gaps in my border where, sadly, the three Malva moschata plants have been removed, and where other herbaceous perennials, despite emerging after spring, didn't fare so well or fared, like the Malva, far too well and started to overpower neighbouring plants. In a small garden, such as mine, which is packed with plants, it's always a bit of a juggling game.
I never get my borders right first time but that doesn't perturb me as I very much doubt that many other gardeners ever do either. It's not a case of putting things in the wrong place as much as plants growing differently than expected, or not growing at all.
I plan to do some propagating too, probably by division rather than cuttings. There are plants at the front of my home, in the narrow border, that I would like to see also at the back of the house, particularly that fabulous blue penstemon 'Heavenly Blue'. I simply have to have it in my back garden. It can fill an empty space!