Hard to believe it’s July already, I’m unsure where the year is going, but I am enjoying it. The weather has been exponentially better than last summer, and still a nice mix of rain and sun. Enough rain to keep things happy, enough sun to keep them happy and not too hot that the blooms are over in mere days rather than weeks.

Last year I decided not to have any of the purple Foxgloves this year, the whites don’t seem to self seed or don’t come true when they do… So I sowed some ‘Apricot’ seeds that came with an issue of Garden’s Illustrated… What a waste of time, they’re purple just like the normal ones and stumped, with few blooms. Guess it pays to stick to the robust wild ones, after all they’re such prolific seeders for a reason.

Harlow Carr is dwarfed by Thistles, in the foreground…