It is time to cut flush all alchemilla after flowering to induce the growth of new leaves tender and fresh. Do not be afraid to cut everything to the base, some gardeners say you can even mow over when you have a large clump. Just sprinkle a good move to boost growth, and again, often alchemilla are doing themselves, they are perennial wild after all. Enjoy it to get flower stalks, even when they are sun-browned, remove the leaves and keep only lateral inflorescences into clumps that you put in a dry corner of the garden or shed, before out on a table in the middle of winter in a pot solid. A single bouquet of this kind can illuminate a corner of the garden so sad during the winter.
There are still quite a few people who dare not make bouquets with dried grasses. Everyone has been so marked by the same around the world who make immortal clumps of grass and so ugly for a long time the idea of giving urticaria. But it's all over now and it's time to make these bouquets from grass stems that abound in the gardens and nature at this time.
Put yourself in the shade of a tree (or so stay in the sun belt mad SM) with all sections of stems and remove all leaves school to keep only the inflorescence on a long stem. I was talking pictures of immortal. But it's super nice to get mass effects with these flowers. The first two years after my arrival in the country, I have planted many in the field of cosmos. You can be pricked with a pin on any what medium, as for flower parades, but with more funky reasons as if you wanted to please a fagzine. It's time to cut the flowering stems of thyme and marjoram , you mix it with anything you find, like thistles, Eryngium . In that time, stipa tenuifolia seeds are too heavy, some look toward the ground while shaving at 10 cm above the ground and make a beautiful bouquet, unedited, in a vase. For me, the real dried flowers should be displayed in the heart of winter, when grasses have the greatest impact. A big bouquet on a garden table, outdoors, in full cold and the wind, it makes a cool effect. Of course, it should be protected from rain because the dry stalks decompose very quickly, but even under a tree like a cedar, it provides a focal point for several weeks is pretty gloomy months of winter.
It's time to start cuttings. Everyone knows he must wait until August, when the rods are hardwood, but there are plenty of varieties of plants that can be propagated from cuttings now because we simply can not miss. This is the case sage. Like lavender and rosemary, salvias are beautiful massive edge, along a path. Without care, they often all alone marcottent dragging on the ground. Just take the stems, remove the secondary leaves, halve the past and put these rods in a pot with any soil, sand is perfect, by placing the rods on the edge of the pot. And put it in the shade garden in the corner of the cooler.
It's time to prune trees in green, which means when the leaves are still there in the middle of summer. Shrubs and trees tend to grow too, reduce their stems to avoid exhausting, especially when storms insist pass over our heads without bringing the water (as it happens at home, no real rain for a month and a half). Have fewer branches and leaves to feed based tree or shrub during the hard times of drought.
is also the time of trimming hedges with shears or hedge trimmers and leaving cuts on the floor for a few days in the sun to dry before picking. Drier, they will be lighter to handle (when the hedges are tall) and throw them into the compost, crush or burn them. Now is the time to grind the long wooden sticks, or cut them to make bundles. Again, everything must be made in the shade unless you are really masochistic.
It's time to collect seeds to give to friends. Here I collect columbines along I flaps to the foot, their leaves were almost being roasted by the sun. As alchemilla, the sage pratensis carnations and dwarves, or Sweet William. In some corners of the garden there are still seeds muscari in the stems dried seeds primula veris . All these seeds are good, are easy to plant.
It's time to reduce streets (with gloves because it is very toxic) to give them a good round shape and pick up the stems into small bundles hanging in the cabin to keep out insects and mice. Moreover, if there is a time to store and clean the cabin, it is now. If someone wants to help me and spend a day at any store and get out and dust off that cabin that is filled brothel for two years, feel free to ask.
is the time to aerate the espalier fruit to remove leaves that hide the fruit. Cut the leaves aerates apples and pears, sun exposure. You have to control the vine and there also identify clusters of grapes for maximum exposure to sunlight. Treat one last time with Bordeaux mixture.
It's time to give fertilizer to everyone, except for grasses. Before August, the plants are mature and they are already exhausted to push. As it is very dry, it is well watered the first night, almost drowning the plants and shrubs. Then watered again the next day with the fertilizer, so that it does not burn a plant thirsty. If there's compost is a good time because it also added mulch, but I do never do when it gets too hot as now.
So it's time to move quickly in the garden to see the purpose of stock. At the end of July, nobody buys flowers for the garden because people are too afraid (with reason) to plant by hot weather. So there are some impressive sales, and even rare species are sold off for nothing. For 10 euros, I bought 10 plants still in good health, primula denticulata which usually worth at least 4 euros each and Phalaris that are easily 5 euros. The roses are sold off too. Just buy them, store them in a cool corner of the garden with water, keep them off before planting in September. For the cups, do not plant in open ground (too dangerous), but give them each a bigger pot, enough to wait before the final planting in October. You will then, for 1 euro, a perennial that has taken the size of a plant that will be worth almost EUR 10.
Finally, it's time to order and store the wood. Gather at the shelter all the piles of wood that have been accumulated on site around the garden. With the heat, they dry at high speed. Make bundles with cut branches of hedgerows (hedge, beech). Always make bundles. And when you do all this, look around you, it's quiet and you'll see the Vienna conference is far away, and the case also Bettencourt, and all the shenanigans of the world slip and evaporate and if you think about though, is better find your point of view, all alone, like a big, without the need of Internet or news channels.
