A new month and it’s definitely autumnal but I don’t mind. I think autumn is a pretty season of the year with leaves going orange, yellow and red.
I have a few plants currently in flower which I haven’t posted before .
Chelone and Rudbeckia Goldstrum
An unusual later flowering foxglove and maybe even a peranniel – I hope so 
Penstemon 
Anyone who knows me or has been following my blog for a year will know that 2016 was mainly spent organising my late grandparents house being updated and the garden completely relandscaped ready to rent out.
Here is a link to the ‘before and after’ blog post about The relandscaping of the garden .
Nearly a year on and the tenants have movdc out and we’ve got a little time to get the house ready again for some new tenants. The grass was pretty well looked after apart from many places the dog weed on! They have reseeded many of the areas and it is growing back fairly well. However, the flower borders were full of weeds some of which I’ve never seen before and a number of plants have died.
One of the saddest plants I’ve lost is the Euonymus which was in my late grandparents garden before all the work was done and I had transplanted in the new garden.
Anyway, here are a few pictures of what is growing there at the moment and my fantastic weed (first picture – at least I think it’s a weed or it’s loosestrife but it’s gone now) with my fancy garden wellies.
Evening primrose that I didn’t plant but looks quite pretty so I’ve left it there.
Prettt blue hydrangea flower 
Golden Rod – cutting from our garden but much taller than mine at home!
Photenia Red robin I think
The brightest plant in the garden – potentilla but a shrub variety
Apologies for the earlier blank blog. Hope this works better
Just a little picture of a summer flowering container with what I think of as a happy flower – the gerbera – apparently a peranniel one who lives in the greenhouse in winter just in case! And a lovely fuschia.
My cute little wooden wheelbarrow with yellow petunias
I can’t believe it’s August already, this year is flying by! The garden is growing well along with the weeds, due in part to so much rain! This is making it challenging to get much gardening done and I have a list of plants to be moved and still some to be planted out from the greenhouse. Anyway, I have much to choose from in regards to what’s currently flowering so here goes:
Half hardy Fuchsia in my little owl planter. I usually buy a small plug plant in summer for this planter and a pansy or ornamental cabbage in winter.
New Echinacea Cheyenne and Penstamen Apple Blossom bought at Tatton flower show recently
Sweetpeas still going strong 
New Rose Dorothy House flowering well 
Zinnia grown from seed
New Gallardia also bought at Tatton flower show
Rose Hot Chocolate 
Rose Cranford 
So just to explain. On the website that hosts this blog they have a feature on a Wednesday called wordless Wednesday which I think is supposed to be a picture and no words. This gives me a great opportunity to show off something from the garden but using no words. Sometimes there is just nothing to say about the picture. So in future wordless Wednesday will feature pictures and few words! Hope that makes sense
This is the third flower show I’ve been to and I think the last for the year. It is the most local to me and one where I often buy plants – 3 this year. I will probably blog about them separately but I got a Penstemon, an Echinacea, and a Gaillardia.
I think we saw all the show gardens, back-to-back, school gardens and the County council gardens of which there are less every year. We also managed the massive floral marquee. In general I loved the vast majority of gardens this year, those very colourful and those that are more relaxed with paler colours.
Here are my pictures, I hope you enjoy them and that it might encourage you to visit the show another year. Always a great day out.
Each year I think there is a flower of the year which appears throughout the whole flower show. This year I actually think there were 2 – both bulbs and properly from the same plant family – Alliums and Agapanthus (I have the latter growing in my garden – a picture of which was on my last blog #wordlesswednesday a day late!
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