Keep your border beautiful
IF one is not careful, it is easy to get melancholy and funereal about autumn; a lot is written about ‘the dying summer’ and ‘tidying up the borders for the winter’. There seems an almost suicidal urge to bring the season to an end just when dahlias, chrysanthemums, Michaelmas daisies and many other plants are at their splendid best. This premature closedown is often angled at herbaceous and mixed borders. Yet you can hold on the promise of colour to come, at least until the beginning of November.
At the moment there are still plenty of ‘last flowers of summer’, to kill another cliché, including the wispy white fuzz of , pink daisies on (), several potentillas such as ‘Gibson’s Scarlet’, plenty of
