Tuesday August 29th

Posted by Alistair on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Gardening to someone who is absolutely not interested can be like torture, we would find this hard to comprehend. Personally, I feel like this when it comes to washing my car.

Three weeks ago on a glorious warm morning I decided to wash the car in my front drive, I was converted, no more driving through the car wash. Something that I had been doing for the last thirty years on a weekly basis. No more wasting money, no more laziness, I would do this every week from now on, wash the car that is.

Well that was three weeks ago, honest I was definitely going to do it today, but the hedge in the west border had to be cut, the front grass was a bit long, and I just had to remove that bamboo in the round garden which Myra felt was out of place in the position that it was planted.

Now I am not lazy, I will wash the car tomorrow, but come to think of it, the cold days will soon be here, who in there right mind would wash a car in temperature less than ten degrees.

To continue Perennial plants at their best late summer and autumn, here is another beauty, Aster Fricartii Monch. Comes into flower a little earlier than a lot of the Asters. This one is a beautiful pale blue, masses of individual flowers two inches across. Doesn’t like to be crowded out. Plant three together for more impact.

Aster Fricartii Monch