Kathy Brown's
AUGUST GARDEN
at
The Manor House, Church Road, Stevington,
Nr Bedford MK43 7QB
Tel. 01234 822064
www.kathybrownsgarden.homestead.com
E: info@kathybrownsgarden.com
This is a wonderful time in the garden especially in the orchard with ripening gages, plums and apples and pears. The vegetable containers will be prolific now with tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, beans etc. The edible flower garden will still be producing tasty fennel flowers, marigolds, garlic chive flowers, marjoram etc all good for sweet and savoury dishes alike.
But it is the naturalistic borders which really steal the show. Golden grasses of various kinds with tall solidago, whispy purple verbenas, pink and white echinaceas underplanted with blue Geranium Rozanne, sedums etc. The butterflies love them all. It is magical to wander through the paths which dissect the borders enjoying the movement and back light.
Many of the late flowering clematis will still be looking really good especially 'Polish Spriit' and all the yellows, some now with fluffy seedheads. We have species tangutica as well as Aurelion, Golden Tiara, Bravo and many others. The white Japanese anemones beneath the wisteria arches look marvellous beneath the yellow clematis.
Elsewhere the exotic containers are looking better and better, bright with colour and form. All the black aeoniums, agaves and dasylirions add super structure. The old fishpond is positively ablaze with dazzling pots.
Lavender drizzle and flapjacks will still be on offer on my open Tuesdays but carrot and marigold cake become a firm favourite at this time of year.
