SECOND FLUSH ON SYRINGA 'RED PIXIE'

The weather may have been unseasonally poor this June, July, and August in the UK but in my garden, high on the Pennine Mountains of West Yorkshire, the delightful little Syringa 'Red Pixie' is producing a second flush of welcome, intensely fragrant flowers.  They are knock-out!  Little things and all that, but such things make me happy when summer seems to have passed us over this year.  If there are shrubs that I can recommend, this is one of them.

Syringa 'Red Pixie'

Intensely fragrant, small shrub

I grow mine Syringa 'Red Pixie' against a fence on my south-facing border, where it gets some partial shade from the house rather than full sun all day long (that's a laugh - we haven't had so much sun this summer).  I am training it somewhat so that it is more fan shaped than bushy so that it doesn't compete too much with my perennials. 



Another small and fragrant shrub is Philadelphus 'Snowbelle'.  It has white flowers and smells divine. 

Philadelphus 'Snowbelle'

A small and fragrant shrub