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The Garden In September

September 26, 2016 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

It just so happens that September is s good time of year for landscaping to be all done & dusted & for planting to start. The construction is almost all done in our garden, there’s just the greenhouse to put up & a small summer-house is arriving in a few weeks time.

The timing is down to luck rather than planning, but I’m making the most of it while the soil is warm enough for new plants to develop roots & be all ready to start growing next Spring, & there’s no more frazzling sunshine around.

Bare-rooted trees & shrubs will be available from next month when nurseries begin digging them up, the roots are wrapped rather than potted, which means they’re a whole lot cheaper means they’re cheaper to produce. Order them now for delivery next month.

I’m tempted to order bare-root roses & peonies, although we have some already. You can also buy bare-root fruit bushes & small trees too, order them now too & there’ll be plenty to choose from ready for delivery next month.

peony clare de lune

Peony Clare de Lune

peony-x-lemoinei-souvenier-de-maxine-cornu

Peony x Lemoinei Souvenier de Maxine Cornu- possibly one of the longest plant names, certainly one of the most glamorous.

Spring flowering bulbs are such a joy, though the enormous choice of tulips types is a little overwhelming, don’t you think? I’ll order them this month too, along with alliums, daffodils & crocus. The tulips will have to wait to be planted until the end of October/November, to let the cold weather kill off the fungal disease [tulip blight] that they’re susceptible too.

We’ve now got 6 vegetable beds in the garden, the timing wasn’t so great for this because there aren’t many vegetables to start growing now, but I’ll use them now to sow hardy annual flower seeds for planting out in the garden next Spring.

Ammi visnaga- white flower

fashionable white umbellifer – Ammi visnaga

pink poppy flower

silky leaved poppy

scabiosa flower

Scabiosa ‘Back in Black’

californian poppy flower-poppy-bee

Eschescholzia – aka californian poppy

californian poppy- orange flower

more tissue petals of Eschescholzia

they’ll get a head start before winter kicks in, a few leaves appear but most of their energy is put into growing a good root-system ready for next year, this gives them a huge advantage over seeds sown in Spring.

You can buy hardy annual seeds from Higgledy garden here, spring flowering bulbs here & what to do in the vegetable garden here.

Have a lovely week.

Jill

all photos: Jill Anderson

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