I trimmed the lavender hedge yesterday, sheared the coreopsis, hebes, and erigeron, dug out the spent wallflowers, poppies, chrysanthemums, lobelia and then stood back and realised my garden looked NAKED!!! It’s a sickening, mixed with adventurous optimism, kind of feeling. It had to happen. The garden was looking tired and needed a midsummer freshen up.

So we packed up the kids and took a stroll down to the local nursery (Bunnings) where I became their biggest customer of the day – not! But we did buy a few good things to dress up the bare patches. Orange and butter yellow Cosmos and pure white alyssum seeds, purple lisianthus, pink dianthus, purple and pink asters and grey foliage lambs ears and cerastium.

Today – we’re planting!!!