As a long-term advocate for organic growing, time and time again I come up across the same misconceptions about organic pest control and what it really involves. These myths can easily get in the way when we are trying to create healthy, beautiful, and productive gardens.
Six on Saturday: Glory of the Garden
27.06.2023 - 16:57 / ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com / Gertrude Jekyll
Although I say it myself, the garden is looking pretty glorious at the moment and there is a lot of standing and staring being done; in the overall scheme of things, however, I have but a small part to play, as the roses, the clematis, the annuals, the dahlias and all the other plants in the garden go about their business more or less independently. Despite a floriferous fortnight or so and a massive thunderstorm last Sunday, the roses are still looking wonderful and should still be on top form next Sunday, when we open the garden for the NGS. Their impact is augmented by a gradual injection of colour from the viticella clematis, which are just coming into bloom, as in the above picture where ‘Lady Emma Hamilton’ (lower left), ‘Crimson Glory’ (pergola) and ‘Rural England’ (a mass of pink froth in the apple trees) are boosted by Clematis ‘Margot Koster’ and ‘Madame Julia Correvon’.
The number of roses in the garden has gradually (or perhaps not so gradually) increased in recent years, and this corner of the shrub border now has its fair share, with (from the left) ‘Boscobel’, ‘Desdemoma’, ‘Roald Dahl’ and ‘Munstead Wood’. ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ climbs across the fence to the left, just out of the picture.
Reducing shade in parts of the garden by removing trees that have outgrown their position meant that roses in the woodland edge border became a viable proposition, and those added in the last year or two have begun to thrive, like ‘Eustacia Vye’ and ‘Tottering-by-Gently’ below:
Having a lot of roses means that deadheading could easily become a daily ritual, and generally I snap off any spent blooms I see on my rambles, but then once or twice a week will go around with a pair of secateurs and a trug and do the job properly
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