The last job on my list was of course my overflowing cold frame. Now, I haven’t quite finished tackling this as yet, I admit to partial defeat on this one.
I can’t count the number of times I have walked around my garden, looking for that elusive gap to slip in yet more plants. Something will have to give. I find myself harbouring homicidal tendencies as I wander for the umpteenth time, around my insufficient garden.
This is where any catnapping plants better beware! Another skill I have greatly improved upon is my ability to spot the cheaters amongst my plants. You buy them in good faith and then they neglect their half of the bargain. Well, it’s just not good enough. I’ve already got my eye on one or two swindlers. Despite this, I have managed to plant out some cuttings of penstemons and cistus, plus some sturdy seedling agapanthus. But I still have yet more penstemons getting a little leggy in my still bulging cold frame, with numerous tiny box plants and bays.
Problems aside, this time of year is for most gardeners, the crowning glory we have all been working and waiting for. We’ve had the cheerful, merry bulbs and plants of spring, now for the main players of old roses, large-flowered hybrid clematis and endless hardy geranium flowers.
Summer’s bounty is only just beginning, so please fasten your seat belts!
Gardening Miscellany
- The Garden of Mereville - Sign the petition to save this superb French garden.
- The Museum of Garden History - Lambeth Palace Road, London.
- Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture - Encouraging & improving horticulture in New Zealand.
Graham Leatherbarrow.
June, 2001.
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