Herald - Issue 410

5th August 2021 • The HERALD • Page 47 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v | DOWN THE GARDEN PATH | 023 8084 0092 / 07557 792785 07879 552227 www.crowngardensandlandscapes.co.uk info@crowngardensandlandscapes.co.uk A family run business with over 20 years experience. Our teams of professional, friendly and reliable Gardeners and Landscapers are passionate about gardening and landscaping to very high standards of presentation and quality workmanship. Garden Maintenance Leaf Clearance Summer Tidy Up Hedges Borders Weeds Pressure Washing Landscaping Design Patios Artificial Lawns Decking Fencing Garden Repairs Your specialist Landscape and Garden Maintenance service, based in Hythe. Here to support the design, creation and maintenance of your perfect and personal outdoor space. With a slow start to summer, this year has been a little underwhelming. Heavy rain, wind and cool temperatures have played havoc with our gardens. e grass has kept growing, rose bushes are feeling the brunt of the rain and we’ve barely had a chance to sit and enjoy our outside spaces. Fortunately, there are plenty of late summer/autumn plants you can incorporate into your garden that will inject some magni cent colour and help you create a garden for all seasons. Dahlia Dahlia’s will give you colour in your garden right through until autumn. eir wide, full blooms in an array of colours make a statement if you’re looking for something to create impact. ey are on the more intensive side when it comes to looking a er them, as they don’t like cold winter temperatures. So think carefully about where you want to place them. Planting them in a pot can work well, so that you can bring into a greenhouse or slightly warmer environment during the winter. Alternatively, some people cut them right down and li out the tubers, insulating them with thick compost to protect them and then re-plant the following spring. Rudbeckia Rudbeckia is renowned for its cheerful, bright yellow owers. But there are plenty of varieties if you’re looking to get lots of colour into your autumn garden. ey can also give you a lot of height – some Rudbeckia plants can reach a height of three metres! Hardy and herbaceous, they will survive any bitter winters and when they naturally start to clump, you can divide the clumps and plant elsewhere to spread their autumn glory. You can buy them as seeds and then plant out a er spring is over or you can buy them all year round as established plants from most garden centres. So there’s plenty of time le to get them into your garden for autumn. Japanese Anemone Japanese Anemone are an ideal autumn plant if you’re a er colour and height and if you’re a hesitant gardener. ey also love shade, so if you’ve been struggling with a shady patch in your garden these plants are ideal. Flowering from August until October, Japanese Anemone spread very easily so they can ll any gaps in borders Best in Bloom – Late Summer Plants to Keep your Garden Glowing by Crown Gardens & Landscapes and you’ll be able to split and re-plant in other areas of your garden. ey’re also great for wildlife in winter, with their seed heads providing nutrition for birds. Nerine Bowdenii e radiant pink blooms of Nerine Bowdenii are perfect for injecting some colour into your garden in the autumn. eir lily-like owers and foliage clump together over time, so if you want to add pops of colour across your garden you can simply split the clumps and plant elsewhere. ey’re hardy and resilient, and ower from September through to November which gives you colour right through until winter begins. You can buy them as bulbs to plant in the spring or as fully established plants so you don’t have to wait until next year to enjoy them in your garden. Blooms in Late Summer Farewell to Gardening Association Due to COVID-19 restrictions Dibden Purlieu Gardening Association held their farewell party outside at the Healthy Haven Garden on Saturday 10th July. e garden group had been in existence for 75 years, but due to COVID-19 and a lack Left to right: Judith Whitcher, Roger & Anne Joyce admiring the roses of O cers it has nally had to fold. Approximately 20 members both past and present attended and enjoyed a bu et meal and wine. ey were also able to look around the beautiful garden and see all the owers in bloom. SOLITARY BEES Woodlands Gardening Club meets on the second Tuesday of the month. Meetings start at 7.30pm at Trinity Church in Totton, and their next meeting takes place on Tuesday 14th September for a talk by Gill Southwell titled ‘Solitary Bees’. Visitors will be very welcome at £2.50; for more information about the club, call Susanna on: 023 8029 2953.