Did your Garden have a good summer ?

[KittyCatsby]

We live in the North West in Cumbria . I feel this has been the worse summer for our garden in at least 10+ years. The lupins were a no show , most never came up , the ones that did hardly flowered. The Gladiolis never came up except one very spindly one.
Shrubs that usually abundantly flower , didn't put on a good performance. All in all a poor year. How was it for you ?

Also in the northwest, but I think we did better. Lupins were glorious, azaleas and rhododendrons the same. But that was May/June time
Came home from a week away in August and most plants were parched and gone over, but I wouldn't say it's been the worst year

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I guess that goes to show that it depends on each garden. I'm glad your pupils were glorious. Well jel .

My roses were quite poor this year. They put on a good show in June, but were pretty much gone after mid-July.
I’m still waiting for a second bloom

My hydrangea was a shadow of her former self this year, which was a shame.

My gardenias flowered though, they didn't last year, so that was nice.

My roses have been okay... a bit blighted by early rains I think. The hibiscus plants are all blooming right now, which is lovely and I just have a glut of tomatoes now that are stubbornly staying green!

My dahlias were a disaster, one of them still hasn't made a single flower. All being binned andcI may not bother next year.

Also used peat free compost and plants in containers were no where near as good as the plants in ordinary multi purpose compost.

No. Hardly anything bloomed. Lots died. It looks awful!!

A warm summer in Scotland for a change and garden responded well. Most things sown from seed did well,only the night scented stock didnt germinate.
Pretty much finished now. Just the cosmos still flowering really. Herbs flourished; rosemary,mints,chamomile,borage and fennel all good

Flowers in pots did well, tomatoes and courgettes have been rubbish, just started picking runner beans. Don’t have a large garden and mostly grow things in pots

You’ve just reminded me, I visited DM at the weekend and took seed pods off her lupins, I must remember to get them out of my pocket to store for spring.

My Dahlias have been amazing & still going strong & a couple of roses have been good, along with my delphiniums. My plum tree is full of fruit and I seem to have beaten the plum pocket I’ve suffered for the last couple of years. My pear tree is so full of fruit that most of it will end up on the compost heap if I can’t give it away and even my young apple tree seems to have doubled its crop this year, although still in single figures.

My bee border has been pretty good, although hasn’t performed quite as well as last year, not sure what happened to the borage, just a couple of tiny plants appeared this year and the tree mallow were half the size of last summer but overall it’s been lovely.

I’m busy planning next year already but not looking forward to when my dahlia finally go. I have some amazing ones that I grew from seed this spring whereas some I ordered from T & M have been disappointing and half the size.

I don’t have a big garden btw, I just cram a lot in

The hot, tropical stuff like figs, grape vine,cannas and banana plants did well for me in the SW.
The sweet peas didn't fare so well and my tomatoes are rubbish.

Every thing was lovely in spring - summer/autumn flowering stuff has been a disaster apart from the sunflowers.

SW Scotland. Had a great year. Meconopsis were brilliant and didn't get fried by the hot summer. It started as a great magnolia year and ended with brilliant hydrangeas. Roses a bit meh but we struggle with them anyway, and they were good enough. I'm open to the public but visitor numbers were down on last year, which is a pity because the garden has never looked so good. Didn't rain on the charity opening either. All in all, happy. Next year will be better still.

Oh I’d almost forgotten my sunflowers. They were the highlight of my garden this summer

They have just gone over in the last week. I took seeds from them for next year

Funnily my sunflowers were the only things that struggled. It was a labour of love keeping the pots watered but I installed an underground water storage system in lockdown and despite a long hot SW summer we didn't run out.
Alomestria were might highlight

Grass had to be left to fend for itself and looks awful.

My roses have had second blooms, but nowhere near the level they bloomed last year. The standards have struggled more than the shrub roses.

Am wondering how long it will be until I see a green lawn again. The only bonus has been not having to get the mower out - really can’t remember the last time I used it.

I picked my first tomato today :( normally don't have to buy any for months. No more anywhere near ripe either. Seem to have a glut of cucumber. A lot of things have died while we were on our summer hols too

My tomatoes did really well, they took quite a while to take off but when we had that really hot spell, they seemed to be turning more red by the hour. I didn't have any blight and no split ones either as I made sure I watered them twice a day, sometimes three times with the intense heat.

Really pleased with how they turned out.

A mixed bag for most of us , but perhaps erring on the not so great.
We don't grow fruit but I've heard it has been a very good year for it. My mil would concur with you by saying it's a bad year for runner beans , hers came to nothing as well.

Yorkshire here. Everything as normal but perhaps a bit earlier. Quince and grapes excellent

No, in one word.

It looks tired and tatty. Dahlias were a big no show. Roses didn't do well.

Not in the UK, but it was a very mixed bag for us...my jasmine and my agapanthus were amazing, and my bird of paradise flowered for the first time in years.

But the tomatoes were disastrous, my bamboo has died, mealy bugs got to my banana plant, then it got blown over in high winds, so it's now half a plant...

Still many weeks left for Dahlia's to flower so I wouldn't bin them yet. Mine were late going and some only just opening now but they're glorious and I'm looking forward to the rest opening. The gladioli are just greenery though and never produced flowers this year, not one of them. Some of my roses did very well and some were terrible this year, i'm not sure what happened. The hollyhocks were also only half the size this year which was very disappointing.

I live in West Snowdonia which seems to be the only place to have a reasonable amount of rain this summer, but also had the heat, so as a result my verbena bonairensis and fennel are the tallest they've ever been. Fruit crop was the best ever (apples, strawberries, black currents, tomatos).

Looking windswept now as I live at 335m/1100ft, so this is normal.

Now trying to decide if I can justify buying tulip bulbs and compost for big pots for the front garden. May have to skip it this year due to cost of living. But I do love tulips.

Perthshire here. Fab year for the roses - mine are having a huge second flush now after I deadheaded the first crop of flowers. Good crop of plums, rhubarb and blackberries.
The herbs adored the (very out of the ordinary for up here!) hot sun and dry conditions- my rosemary and sage bushes are like triffids, and the bay trees have put on lots of growth. The fuchsia is still a mass of flowers, ditto the sedums. The lawn got rid of a lot of its moss during the drought, and is now lush again since the rain.
Most of my plants are spring flowering, so were unaffected by the later drought. The rhododendrons, forsythia, kerria, azaleas, wallflowers, lilacs and weigelia were beautiful as usual. The foxgloves and forget me nots also spread themselves liberally.
At present I have a gorgeous scarlet Virginia creeper over the front of my house - it turned colour a bit early this year, probably due to the drought - and a pyracantha smothered in berries.