It is now official that this summer was the worse one for one hundred years. This is the first year I can remember when we did not have to use tap water to irrigate the garden. The odd days when we did need to water, we were able to draw on ample supplies from our water butts. Lots of plants suffered from the incessant rain. The tomatoes were soon suffering from blight and had to be pulled up and destroyed. However, the beans did better than normal because they like to have wet feet.
View to terrace (10/08/12)
Abelia. It has flowered very well in the wet weather. (10/08/12)
The jungle in the west border (10/08/12)
Hesperis has a second flowering. (10/08/12)
Potentilla (10/08/12)
Yellow beans, an Italian variety (10/08/12)
Sunflowers (10/08/12)
Sedum (10/08/12)
Rose (10/08/12)
Raspberries (10/08/12)
Crocosmia (10/08/12)
Japanese anemone. Unfortunately a bit of a thug and hard to get rid of! (10/08/12)
Annual dahlia that has been flowering now for several years! (10/08/12)
Himalayan honeysuckle and apples (10/08/12)
Grapes. The birds are already looking at them. (10/08/12)
Our tomatoes have succumbed to blight. (10/08/12)
Sea holly, eryngium (10/08/12)
A double hollyhock
Oxalis triangularis purpurea (11/08/12)
Indigofera (18/08/12)
Bees on the lavender (18/08/12)
Golden rod, solidago (18/08/12)
Pink phlox and lavender (18/08/12)
Lettuce likes the wet weather. (18/08/12)
Rose (18/08/12)
Clematis (18/08/12)
Mallow (18/08/12)
Aster divaricatus (18/08/12)
Golden hop (18/08/12)
White phlox (18/08/12)
Paprika in the greenhouse (18/08/12)
Artichoke (25/08/12)
Victoria plums. Not many this year because of the wet weather in the spring and the bees could not fly. (25/08/12)
Stokesia (25/08/12)
Sunflower is visited by a bee. (25/08/12)
Fern garden (25/08/12)
Mícheál Ó Suilleabháin – Ah, Sweet Dancer