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.

Good late summer and autumn bedding for pots, and for beds if I can find space.

The purple loosestrife in the pond is the better, and later flowering, of two plants.

The cannas were bought last year and kept outside in their pots over winter.

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.

I cut back all the tall non-flowering stems as low as I could. The photo was taken afterwards.

Four of the six woody stems were blown down in recent high winds, and broke off at the base. The photo shows the remaining two after propping up. I was going to do something about this plant anyway, as it had got very large.

Aster and phlox just coming into flower.

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.