Wharf House Gardener

The temperature in the garden this weekend hovered around 20 degrees Celsius, with very warm nights as well.  This late burst of summer made gardening very pleasurable and also caused us to look more critically at the amount of late season colour we have in the garden.  The dahlias are still going strong, of course, but in the borders, we’re really dependent upon verbena bonariensis and the last of the asters (particularly the incomparable ‘Little Carlow’), together with the last of the gaura and rudbekia.  The question is though, how many mid or late October weekends can be spent enjoying the garden like this last one and how much enjoyment can be had from very late season colour in the borders?

In July of this yea, we were visited by the county organiser for Worcestershire and some of his team and were lucky enough to be told that we would be admitted to the ‘Yellow Book’ in 2018.  The ‘Yellow Book’ is the brochure of private gardens which opens, across the country, as part of the National Garden Scheme (the ‘NGS’).  The NGS has been raising money for cancer-care charities for 90 years now and we are delighted to have been admitted to the exclusive club of gardens, judged interesting enough to open to the public.  We have a lot of work to do over the next 9 months to prepare the garden for our scheduled opening on 1st July 2018. 

A blog about our attempts to create a garden at Wharf House.

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