August 17th to August 23th
Weather: The heatwave has gone – leaving a week of sunshine and heavy showers
Kathy Howard has treated herself to a macro lens attachment for her mobile phone. Recently, she took it down the road to Joyce and John Kenny’s garden – Woodroyd – and created some beautiful close-up images
John and Joyce Kenny, owners of Woodroyd – does no one else garden in a dress shirt? 
Echinops, Rudbeckia and a new Cercidyphyllum japonicum 
Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Fascination’ 
Woodroyd, the west side. Unnamed crocosmia from WYHPS auction 
Fantastic Cosmos grown from seed from Liz Hall, ‘Double Click Cranberry’ has done particularly well 
Red Persicaria from our old friend Roberto with Achillea ptarmica ‘The Pearl’ 
Hostas in the Garden at Woodroyd 
Very shady under Olearia tree. You can just see one flower from Rosa ‘Harlow Carr’ 
Close up 1 – Euphorbia cornigera 
Close up 2 – Anthemis grown from HPS seed distribution, supposed to be EC Buxton, clearly not! 
Close up 3. – Still unidentified! 
Close up 4 – Hydrangea paniculata ‘Vanille Fraise’ 
Close up 5 – Unidentified Astrantia 
Leycesteria formosa and Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’ seen through Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea ‘Black Arrows’ 
Pale pink Persicaria with Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea ‘Black Arrows’ behind 
“Two vast and trunkless legs…”
Next a double header from Denise Dyson – the first set are from her own garden, the second batch were taken during a visit to Joan Grimshaw
Rambling rose ‘Phyllis Bide’ – more pale yellow than the usual apricot colour probably because of the dry weather and proximity to large trees 
Convolvulous mauritanicus in a hot corner 
A vibrant single hollyhock 
A new rose to me – climbing – ‘Mortimer Sackler’. Beautiful scent and hardly any thorns 
A mature crab apple tree laden with fruit, following profuse blossom which was posted on LG in the spring 
A brick-red Diascia next to Oreganum ‘Kent Beauty’
And here is the second set. Denise says, “I had a cup of tea with Joan Grimshaw in her lovely newly-made garden and took the attached photos“
Judith Ladley has also been garden visiting. These pictures are from Duncan Townend’s garden in Rothwell
Duncan Townend’s lovely garden in Rothwell. “I was lucky enough to visit Duncan’s home and have a tour of his very well planted garden” 
General view plus very realistic cockerel 
Beautiful hydrangea aspera (apologies to Duncan if I’ve wrongly named this plant) 
Spigelia marilandica ‘Wisley Jester’ Unknown to any of the people on the visit 
Stachys hummelo growing in front of Persicaria polymorpha 
The best clump of Crocosmia Solfatare I have ever seen, plus one other crocosmia 
A well grown clump of Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’ 
Romneya coulteri grown by Judith and now on a neighbour’s allotment (the best place for it as it’s a thug)
Sue Gray has tamed that tricky Wild Swan
Anemone ‘Wild Swan’ – no lame duck here – and Fuchsia ‘Genii’ 
Cichorium intybus – one of my favourite plants and a much richer blue than this implies 
Eucomis autumnalis 
Eucryphia x nymansensis ‘Nymansay’ 
Nepeta govaniana & ‘friends’, flowering for the first time since it was moved to a spot that it obviously prefers 
Spiraea japonica ‘Shirobana’ a.k.a. ‘Joseph’s Coat’ as the flowers appear in differing shades of pink & white
Our day trip to John Massey’s garden was one of the many summer treats that had to be cancelled this year, but Pat Hunter has glimpsed that earthly paradise from the far bank of the Staffs & Worcester Canal. Hopefully we’ll get to the other side next summer!
Terry Benton is anticipating some fine pears this autumn
Excitement was caused in the Hackett garden this week by the first flower on Codonopsis grey-wilsonii. This delicate climber is named after Christopher Grey-Wilson – some of us heard him speak a couple of years ago at the East Yorkshire lecture day at Bishop Burton.
Unbiased opinion. Beautiful.
Thank you, Brian.
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