Loose and lovely

The garden is unshackled, set free, gone loose and become wanton.  The relative formality of May and June is long past and the regiments and brigades of Allium heads dismissed or gone to seed.  The Foxgloves have also gone to seed which we will collect and propagate providing us with more plants for the garden.

Now the season has moved on and the stars of the show are roses.  Wedding Day crowns the arch from the vegetable garden into the orchard and looks romantically lovely.

But goodness it has been hot.  We have experienced temperatures of 30 degrees plus and the garden has basked in searing heat and light.  The Lavender has loved it of course and is now all out and providing a sea of blues and purples, whites and mauve.

Monardas abound and stand tall with their shaggy caps in reds (Gardenview Scarlet and Panorama Red Shades) and pinks (didyma Pink Supreme).  Soon will be the time for the cone flowers and I expectantly wait for the many Echincea purpurea Magnus we planted to show and display their finest.  Plate-like heads of Achilleas too are everywhere while Sedums are swelling daily.  Helenium Wyndley and Moerheim Beauty are also now appearing in clumps dotted around the beds too.

Summer is here, real heat has arrived.  Now is the time to store the moment in our memory bank or take pictures to look back on in the depths of Winter where we will warm ourselves with thoughts of long, hot Summer days.