In the Garden this Month The Garden in August A hot and humid late-summer with occasional stormy weather.
Most days are dry and warm but at month-end, there is a slight feeling of chill in the morning.
Sidalceas and penstemons have come to the fore, with Japanese anenome Honorine Joubert and white phlox providing a little sharpness to draw the eye. The fresh bronze foliage of Abelia grandiflora shows off the pretty white flowers and pink buds. Campanula primulaifolia has lovely mauve flowers above rather rough foliage, mixed in with a tall verbena hastata and verbascum phoenicium. In the vegetable garden, fennel is beginning to 'bulb' and there are at last lots of climbing beans. In the brassica bed, purple sprouting broccoli is doing well, red autumn cabbage and black kale.