Both clumps of ox eye daisies have now finished flowering. The frilly ones had been allowed to flow (nicely) and the common ones had stayed proped up well behind their steel support. The common ones had swamped the monkshood, which will, hopefully, recover.

Pink and white lilies bought in flower last year and left over winter in their pots have just finished. Superb display. See 28 Jul 19.

All my lilies do much better in pots. The fresh bulbs and bulbs from my pots that I planted in my beds haven’t been good.

No sign of lily beetle yet.

Pulled out Typha latifolia. Just a few stems. Elegant, but much too big for my pond. I’ve no idea how it got here.

Pulled up water mint that had strayed from its designated area.

Cut back spent stems of greater spearwort.

Continued to remove brooklime and water soldier from deep water.

Cut back spent purple loosetrife. I don’t really need two clumps, even if they are slightly different plants.

Cut back bent over stems of sweet galingale. Still plenty.

This continues to be extremely vigorous on the N fence at the back. I have to give it quite a severe trim 2 or 3 times a year. In spite of this, it has flowered better this year than previously. There remain two mysteries: What sort of growth does it flower on? This year’s? Last year’s? I still can’t work it out. The second problem is how do you tell which way a shoot is growing when all you can see is the middle of a stem and it must be cut out? This applies to the clematis montana as well, but not to the rose, thankfully.

The Leucanthemum vulgare next to the path in F1 has stayed propped up, but is really rather too tall for this position. Perhaps a Chelsea Chop next spring will keep it under control. ‘Shapcott Gossamer’ has been allowed to flop, and is very effective.

The lavender from the original garden near the garage is now enormous, but just coming into its own, and covered in bees. It seems to have stopped flopping. I suppose I shall have to reduce it a bit.

The middle plant, which I cut back to the ground, can come out when convenient. The other two have responded well to heavy pruning.

Some plants go on and on. I’ll cut back the cistus, which has smothered some plants in front of it, when it’s finished.

The clematis have just finished flowering. They’ll probably flower again a little. Hopefully they’ll keep out of the eaves until next year.

The wisteria didn’t flower, but if it had, now would be the time to get it out of the eaves.

Clematis ‘Ville de Lyon’ is not so good this year. When should I prune it? After fist flowering in early summer and in late winter / early spring? Feed?