I am having a glorious summer with Phlox. I discovered Phlox through reading Christopher Lloyd’s Colour for Adventurous Gardeners, one of the gardening books I return to time and time again. I have written about my other Phlox varieties in Phloxy Lady? and Boring… Now it is the turn of the loudest and proudest, Phlox paniculata ‘Starfire’. This has wonderful…
Category: Bright Border
My vision for my bright border is: firework explosions of colour, dramatic starbursts of flower form, and clean and bright foliage. Here is how it looks through the seasons…
Butterflies and Buddleia in the Bright Border
It has been scorching for weeks. Yes, weeks, not days. We are having a proper summer. Where you wake up every day and know you can eat breakfast outside, but have to get stuff done before 9am because then it will be too hot to move. Phlox is loving it. As I was standing here,…
The Morning Mist
It has been a scorching couple of weeks. It has been five weeks since our last rainfall. Then yesterday the heavens opened. I was driving home under the raincloud, hoping it would come with me all the way home. It did, and the garden got a much-needed drenching for twenty minutes. The temperature didn’t drop,…
Refresh! How to water well
When most people around the world think of England, they think it rains all the time. In my part of the world, in Kent, our average yearly rainfall is 650mm. Compare that to Sydney, which has an average of 1,400mm per year. In the summer we can go for weeks, if not months, without…
Roses in the Bright Border
I am sorry to those who are not rose fans, but this is my time. After June the roses will not be so prominent in the garden, and I will stop bombarding you with rose posts. But for now, indulge me. I thought I would write a post about the three roses I grow in…
The Mindful Gardener 