We have a small but lovely garden. It has lots of lovely cottage style plants and I am ashamed to say i dont know their names.
Until this year we had a gardener about five times a year who kept it all roughly under control (which is good enough for us,don't need it to be too tidy).
Unfortunately , we no longer have the budget for the luxury of a gardener. In addition, our previous lovely gardener is not at all well so I feel contacting her to ask for telephone advice would be insensitive.
The plants are becoming too large and crowding each other. The smaller ones are not getting a look in .
I don't know where to start with cutting them back. Is it ok to 'prune' at this time of year? I am afraid of killing the plants.
I know the sensibile thing would be to identify each plant and research how best to manage them but I am so short of time.
I know that that one of the main offenders is forget me not but other than that I am stumped.
What would you do. I have the day to myself and am really hoping to get the garden a bit more under control.