Is a mess again. I think it is because….

• No sun – it used to be very sunny but now the fuschia is enormous and blocks it.
• Lots of snails – they eat anything that isn’t very strong: only the well-established survive.
• The well established things are huge – so they block out the light, take over the space and make it hard for anything else to come through.
• Hard to access – it’s tricky getting into it (for anyone other than foxes)
• That’s another problem as it’s a well-trodden fox-run to next door’s garden.

I’m hoping that writing these down will help me deal with them. Each time I want to plant something I should remember this.

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This August, there is nothing flowering in it except the swamp-sunflowers. There’s also a huge angelica which I don’t remember planting and some Greater Celandine.

The one plus is that as we can’t sit on the paved bit (it’s the cricket net) we can only see the bed from the kitchen, so it doesn’t really matter this year. But it would be nice to see lovely flowers and a range of insects.

This week, I have cut the fuschia back. I’ve cleared lots of greenery and put in the only plants I have left in pots. Some Queen Anne’s Lace and foxglove, what might be a scabious and some catchfly. I’m not sure if it will have much effect and it really annoyed the toad, but we’ll see. As we are off next week, it doesn’t seem worth trying to do anything major now. Maybe next week…..