It’s fair to say that I don’t do well in the heat at the best of times so you can imagine that over the last week or so with temperatures reaching the low 30Cs (high 80Fs) I have been pushed to engage with the garden.
I’m coming to the end of a weeks annual leave when in the past I would have really tidied up the garden ahead of the rest of the summer. However, this week the most I have managed is to continue with the endless watering of the pots and trying to keep the newer plantings going. Luckily, I have been distracted by a lovely day out in cloudy damp Wales and two days of embroidery workshops with friends; the workshop room had a couple of vast ceiling fans which made it more bearable.
Today we have had a rather cloudy day with heavy rain and storms forecast over the next 48 hours. Whilst it has still been very warm for this time of year the patio is fairly cool first thing in the morning so I spent an hour tidying and potting up my succulent collection. The above are Agave montana seedlings which have been bidding their time on the patio and in desperate need for potting up. The seeds were sown in 2016 and I expect that if I had potted them up earlier this year they would be much larger now but I didn’t. I think they look rather cute in their matching terracotta pots and they are now residing in groups along the edge of the gravel steps.
I also potted up a few other pot bound residents of the patio including a large branching aeonium, a sad pelargonium and my Bird of Paradise seedling which may flower one day. I finished with potting up two Sempervivums which I bought in Somerset. These are now forming a group on one of the patio tables along with a Daphne which I am trying to revive. I’m trying to display my pots in more interesting groups, as per the pot displays I saw in Austin but I think I have a way to go yet.
After an hour I was hot and sticky and retreated back to my sewing which I wont bore you with. Here’s hoping the promised rain arrives soon.
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