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We’re going to have to give some thought to the garden for next year. This year hasn’t been massively productive on account of the off weather that we’ve had this year.
The drought that was Spring and early Summer, followed by the sustained cool monsoon that was most of the rest of the summer meant that many plants just didn’t grow, or if they did, it was all a bit haphazard. I don’t recall seeing any cherries on the tree this year. Early on there were signs, but those quickly faded and what small crop there was went to the birds rather than us. We certainly didn’t have to sweep anything away and regret the waste. Nothing noteworthy came off the tree.
That’s pretty much true of any of the plants we have that ought to produce fruit. The odd berry here and there was about it. There were a couple of mal-formed figs on the fig plant. Nothing you could harvest.
Lettuce did well unlike last year when it never happened at all, but all attempts to grow beans failed and the sweet peas and night stock combo that bloomed madly last year produced barely a shoot in 2012 and what appeared rapidly became yellowish and stringy.
We’re still too new at this game to make any educated guesses at what to plant for the best.
The buddleia, until I went mediaeval on it about three weeks ago, has flourished. I think it’s still in a state of shock right now, but I imagine that it will pick up where it left off come the Spring, if we let it. That’s the key: if we let it. I quite like the buddleia, but it has to be said that left to its own devices, it would colonise the entire garden.
Last weekend we went to RHS Wisley to look around the grounds with the rest of the Ilford Massive. It’s not the time of year to see the place at its best, but Autumn does have its own attractions. I think we were both beguiled by the thought of an Acer somewhere in the garden, particularly the small tree variety as opposed to the bushes. There was a very appealing orangey example at Wisley that would fit very nicely in a certain part of our little plot. But I’ll have to dig something out first…
The drought that was Spring and early Summer, followed by the sustained cool monsoon that was most of the rest of the summer meant that many plants just didn’t grow, or if they did, it was all a bit haphazard. I don’t recall seeing any cherries on the tree this year. Early on there were signs, but those quickly faded and what small crop there was went to the birds rather than us. We certainly didn’t have to sweep anything away and regret the waste. Nothing noteworthy came off the tree.
That’s pretty much true of any of the plants we have that ought to produce fruit. The odd berry here and there was about it. There were a couple of mal-formed figs on the fig plant. Nothing you could harvest.
Lettuce did well unlike last year when it never happened at all, but all attempts to grow beans failed and the sweet peas and night stock combo that bloomed madly last year produced barely a shoot in 2012 and what appeared rapidly became yellowish and stringy.
We’re still too new at this game to make any educated guesses at what to plant for the best.
The buddleia, until I went mediaeval on it about three weeks ago, has flourished. I think it’s still in a state of shock right now, but I imagine that it will pick up where it left off come the Spring, if we let it. That’s the key: if we let it. I quite like the buddleia, but it has to be said that left to its own devices, it would colonise the entire garden.
Last weekend we went to RHS Wisley to look around the grounds with the rest of the Ilford Massive. It’s not the time of year to see the place at its best, but Autumn does have its own attractions. I think we were both beguiled by the thought of an Acer somewhere in the garden, particularly the small tree variety as opposed to the bushes. There was a very appealing orangey example at Wisley that would fit very nicely in a certain part of our little plot. But I’ll have to dig something out first…