In B2 on S fence. Doing well and producing fruit. It would be nice to use them for something

One salvia nemorosa ‘Lubecca’ in B1 cut back. Two left. Some geranium ‘Rozanne’ foliage cut back. Some erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ in B3 trimmed.

The thalictrums in B1 and B2 have gradually thinned out as the season’s progressed, and you can now see through them quite well.

Early September 17

Cut back all the thalictrums, and most of the salvias.

See also May 17

Large water soldier with two small offsets, water plantain and fibre optic plant already looking at home the day after adding to the pond

Brugmansia in front of the garage is doing well, and hasn’t been blown over thanks to the new pot supports.

This is good, but getting too big. It will need careful pruning this winter and next spring

Fuchsias are new plants for me. These came with the original garden, and must have survived for several years. The yellowish one is easy to cut back from the neighbours’ path, and doesn’t seem to mind this treatment. The reddish one lost its leaves in a drought last year, but recovered quite quickly. The tips of some branches died over winter and needed pruning in the spring. F4 is rather dry anyway, and needs a lot more organic matter. Both of them would benefit from a fairly severe prune in spring. See RHS advice

This was inherited from the original garden. It’s always been very good in summer and popular with the bees. It’s got very woody over the years, and last year I tried to prop it up with stakes and cord. This didn’t really work, and this year I’ve let it flop. It seems happy, and I quite like it like this. I’ve struck some cuttings which seem to have taken, and I’ll repeat this in the autumn.

This is a relic from the previous London garden. I started with the pot closer to the house, where the leaves that side got shredded in the wind. Let’s see how they recover in this new position.

The wooden slats round the pot have done a good job of keeping it upright in the wind.

Groups of pots on the gravel are working really well, particularly in the front garden.

The clematis from the original garden, never very good, seems to have failed. The honeysuckle looked promising earlier in the year, but now looks tired. I would like at least one large flowered clematis and one good honeysuckle.

Something in the style of ‘Ville de Lyon’, now flowering for the second time, would be good.

This is a very vigorous plant on the S facing fence behind B3. It’s hardly flowering at all at the moment. I think this is because I gave it a very good prune last autumn, or early winter, when the neighbours cut back their side. The RHS advice is of course to prune immediately after flowering. It seems that Jasminum officinale should flower in spring on last year’s growth, and in autumn on this year’s. I’ll see what, if anything, happens this year, and then decide what to do.