What's Looking Good In October 2017

We cut ours down to the ground as well but we still got it!

Not according to all the reading I did.

That's where they say it comes from.

 

We've had a couple - and the Nigella are blooming again.

We still have a lot of bees and butterflies around although we have cut a lot of plants back. There's so much to be done in the garden that we have to start the cutting back as soon as possible.

This area was full of day lilies. We've cut them back and shall be removing about half of them as they are taking over.



We've just cleared this bed of Vinca that had been there for 40 years. A lot of it has already gone to some new homes. We haven't yet got around to planting those bags of bulbs in there.


We've still not got around to filling the gaps where the Fuchsias had to be removed . We have four areas like this


And we've been clearing other plants but not decided, yet, what to put there (there isn't as much free space as it appears as some of those plants get very big)


The next spot to start clearing out some of our plants is where the Pulmonaria have taken over during the last 50 years. I love the plants but they're strangling all the others we have in the bed - apart from the Nigella which have also gone mad in that bed (they'll have to go as well).


This Acanthus is just starting to flower






The Alstromeria is still going strong


And this antirrhinum has flowered non-stop from early April and is still going strong


Cobaea is also going well with at least 30 flowers on it

 

Thanks @Tetters I'll mention it to Mrs Shiney. The thing that may put her off, from all the descriptions, is the word 'suckering'. We've recently have some problems with suckering plants getting out of hand.

 

That also depends on the type of garden. We would definitely not be able to wait for all flowers to finish as there wouldn't be enough time to for us to look after the plants if we waited that long. There's so much to do in our garden that we have to start tidying/cutting back in October but it still leaves plenty of other plants for the bees and butterflies. With some of our plants we cut them back four weeks ago and they are presenting us with new flowers . The Verbascum chaixii are doing that very well.