REGULAR readers will know that I am not a massive fan of pin-neat gardens, preferring instead the colourful craziness that can develop when plants are left to do their own thing.
However, I do draw a line somewhere and when one of our main beds turned a little feral I had to step in and restore some order.
It came at a time when the early summer alliums had faded and their leaves and stems died back and a selection of self-seeded opium poppies and nigella had popped up and started to flop over.
In among all this were a young salvia and geum trying to gain a foothold, along with several annual heliotropes, snapdragons and rudbeckias that should be at their best later in summer.
This story is from the August 06, 2022 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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