Scorcher

Pfoof! What a hot couple of days at Heale. It is what we have been waiting for and now we go on moaning about it (well I do anyway). Fantastic blue sky days, the grass gets cut and it is British Summer time as we know it, wonderful.

The long meadow areas are coming on with Yellow Rattle and Pyramidal Orchids popping up thanks to Michael's hard work.

The Hybrid Musk Rose border is super right now and will be going over by the time I next enter Heale so I tried to smell and look at them a lot today - handy as I was working right by them today.

I found it quite tricky to capture them on camera today with the Nepeta six hills giant looking striking at the front. You really need to see and smell their glorious scent to take it all in.

We trimmed 3 big Pyracantha this week, right at the front of the house which required ladders and they look much neater, tight to the wall instead of unruly.

The Sweet peas require twice weekly love in order to promote strong and long stemmed flowers. Pinching out side shoots and removing tendrils needs to be done regularly at the moment and then the flowers go to the house for decoration. 

We spent a lot of time weeding and edging Box parterres this week and it looks so much tidier but not for long, four weeks and we do it all again.

Michael showed me some Eremurus tubers today, crazy starfish kind of creatures, anyone other than a Gardener would not believe something could grow from such a thing.

Lots of visitors stop me at Heale, everyone is interested in the house and says what a wonderful place it must be to work. I quite agree, even when kneeling and weeding in the meadow this week, I couldn't help but think how I use to pay to see meadows like these and wish for them when living in London.