Gardener's Diary - July 2010
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With the long dry spell continuing all the long grass around the garden is cut this month with the exception of the bottom pond which is maintained as a wildlife area, the late spring did man this hard to start later than usual due to the delay in bulb foliage dying back. Hedge cutting also starts in July with the many Yews taking several weeks to complete. .
In the Kitchen Garden the winter sown Broad Beans have made way for Leeks & there are successional sowings of Salad, Beetroot & maincrop carrots, a pupose built cage has meant very good Brassicas this year with very fine netting to keep Pigeons and Butterflies out.
Nature Notes
The spotted Flycatchers eventually managed to raise three broods, Butterfly numbers are up this year and there was a first sighting of a Silver-Washed Fritillary
in the gardens.
The photos below are Silver-washed Fratillary, Comma, Red Admiral and Phlox paniculata "Harlequin".
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