JUL 2024

The cut flower garden is now at its most abundant in terms of variety in July. The first dahlias are already ready to harvest, as are the last snapdragons. A later second sowing could significantly extend the season – but that would be too time-consuming for me. In between, sunflowers, ornamental tobacco, bronze fennel, sweet peas, scabious, meadow sage, cornflowers, white reseda, love-in-a-mist, and cosmos are growing, among other things. The echinacea also shine beautifully from the cut flower beds, which is very pleasing. In the vegetable garden and in the perennial beds, most of the echinacea and asters were so badly damaged by slugs in early summer that they either grew back poorly or not at all. The plants I grew myself from the cut flower garden, which were only in their nursery there anyway, will be transplanted into the gaps in the perennial beds in the fall.